The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) - Hardcover

Parkinson, Robert G.

 
9781469652184: The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1469652188 ISBN 13: 9781469652184
Verlag: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA PR, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that to unify the patriot side, political and communications leaders linked British tyranny to colonial prejudices, stereotypes, and fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent Indians. Manipulating newspaper networks, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and their fellow agitators broadcast stories of British agents inciting African Americans and Indians to take up arms against the American rebellion. Using rhetoric like "domestic insurrectionists" and "merciless savages," the founding fathers rallied the people around a common enemy and made racial prejudice a cornerstone of the new Republic.

In a fresh reading of the founding moment, Parkinson demonstrates the dual projection of the "common cause." Patriots through both an ideological appeal to popular rights and a wartime movement against a host of British-recruited slaves and Indians forged a racialized, exclusionary model of American citizenship.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert G. Parkinson is associate professor of history at Binghamton University.

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Verlag
UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1469652188
ISBN 13 
9781469652184
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
768
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
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Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
Niederlande

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