
Before there could be a revolution, there was a rebellion; before patriots, there were insurgents. Challenging and displacing decades of received wisdom, T. H. Breen's strikingly original book explains how ordinary Americans―most of them members of farm families living in small communities―were drawn into a successful insurgency against imperial authority.A few celebrated figures in the Continenta...
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Hill and Wang; 1 edition (May 10, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0809024799
ISBN-13: 978-0809024797
Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 1 x 8.6 inches
Amazon Rank: 659862
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T.H. Breen, William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University continues his previous works on the American Revolution with this new entry into the field. Breen's research is in keeping with the trend of recent scholarship i...
do not make for a revolution. It requires tens of thousands of ordinary men and women willing to sacrifice, kill, and be killed. Breen not only gives the history of these ordinary Americans but, drawing upon a wealth of rarely seen documents, restores their primacy to American independence. Mobilizing two years before the Declaration of Independence, American insurgents in all thirteen colonies concluded that resistance to British oppression required organized violence against the state. They channeled popular rage through elected committees of safety and observation, which before 1776 were the heart of American resistance. American Insurgents, American Patriots is the stunning account of the insurgency that led to the nation's founding.