Gentlemen Revolutionaries - Power and Justice in the New American Republic

"Cutterham has written a bracing book that demands attention. Gentlemen Revolutionaries is a beautifully written, original, and daring interpretation of the nation's most formative period."--Patrick Griffin, author of America's Revolution
"Gentlemen Revolutionaries provides an engaging and enlightening study of how elite gentlemen strove and struggled to maintain the illusion of power--that is, of being able to control the social and economic transformations wrought by a revolution that they had unleashed. Cutterham advances our understanding of the reality of historical lives."--Colin Nicolson, University of Stirling

About the author

Tom Cutterham

Summary

In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen-the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite-worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries shows how their struggles over status, hierarchy, property, and control shaped

Product details

• Authors: Tom Cutterham, Cutterham Tom
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780691210100
• ISBN: 978-0-691-21010-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, PHILOSOPHY / Political, HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, History of the Americas, C 1700 To C 1800, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions