The Reappraisal of the American Revolution in Recent Historical Literature; Publication Number 68
The Johns Hopkins University: Service Center for Teachers of History [A Service of the American Historical Association], 1967. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Booklet. [2], 82 pages. Footnotes. References. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some underlining noted. Since World War II, a new group of scholars has subjected the writings of the Imperial and Progressive historians to a massive, critical reassessment. Reexamining and rethinking the evidence at almost every major point, they have proceeded along two distinct yet complementary and overlapping lines of investigation. One line has been concerned mainly with exploring the substantive issues both in the debate with Britain and in the politics of the new nation between 1776 and 1789 and in examining the nature of internal political divisions and assessing their relationship to the dominant issues. A second line of investigation has been through the history of ideas, especially through the underlying assumptions and traditions of social and political behavior, and has sought to explain the relationship between those ideas and the central developments of the Revolutionary era. The material will appear in somewhat altered form as the introduction to a collection of essays on the American Revolution to be published by Harper & Row. Jack Philip Greene (born August 12, 1931 in Lafayette, Indiana) is an American historian, specializing in Colonial American history and Atlantic history. Greene received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1956. He spent most of his career as Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University’s history department. In 1990-1999 he was a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine. In 1975-1976 Greene was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. Greene retired in 2005 and is currently an Invited Research Scholar at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. In his work, Greene has emphasized the continuities between the colonial era and the revolutionary and early national eras and thereby challenged interpretations of the American Revolution that highlight its transformative and socially and politically radical character. Greene suggests that many of the changes associated with the Revolution (such as in social values, in state organization, in geographical expansion, and in legal systems) were the results of a social trajectory that was deeply rooted in the colonial past and would have occurred with or without the break with Britain; he also proposes that until the middle of the twentieth century the United States continued to be a truly federal polity, in which the political power remained in the states and the citizens’ experience with governance was primarily provincial and local, rather than national. Condition: Good.
Keywords: American Revolution, Historiography, George Bancroft, Robert Levi Osgood, George Louis Beer, Carl Becker, Arthur Schlesinger, Charles Beard, Merrill Jensen, Lewis Namier, R. R. Palmer, Federalist, Nationalist, Hannah Arendt
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