From Resistance to Revolution
Title | From Resistance to Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Pauline Maier |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2013-04-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307828069 |
Maintaining that the outbreak of revolution in 1775 was not the result of secret planning by radicals but rather the end product of years of painful evolution, Pauline Maier brilliantly traces the American colonists’ road to independence from 1765 to 1776 and examines the role of popular violence as political allegiances corroded and once-loyal subjects were gradually transformed into revolutionaries. Mrs. Maier presents a view of the American leaders different from that which prevailed a generation ago, when historians saw them as lawless demagogues who, already set upon independence at the outset of the conflict with England, manipulated the public toward their goal through propaganda and mob violence. She shows that none of the men in the forefront of American opposition to British policies favored independence when the colonies blocked England’s efforts to impose a tamp Tax upon them in 1765. Their love of British institutions was undermined gradually and for reasons beyond their opposition to legislation affecting American interest. Developments in England itself, in Ireland, Corsica, and the West Indies also fed American disillusionment with imperial rule, until leading colonists came to believe that just government required casting loose from Britain and monarchy. Indeed, Mrs. Maier demonstrates that participants saw the American Revolution as part of an international struggle between freedom and despotism. Like independence, violence was a last resort. Arguing that colonial leaders, like many present-day “revolutionaries,” quickly learned that popular violence was counterproductive, Mrs. Maier makes it clear that they organized resistance in part to contain disorder. Building association to discipline opposition, they gradually made self-rule founded upon carefully designed “social compacts” a reality. Out of the struggle with Britain emerged not merely separation, but the beginnings of American republican government.
From Resistance To Revolution
Title | From Resistance To Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Pauline Maier |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780393308259 |
Details major events which shaped an organized resistance movement against the British and brought about the American Revolution.
Celebrate People's History!
Title | Celebrate People's History! PDF eBook |
Author | Josh MacPhee |
Publisher | The Feminist Press at CUNY |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2010-11-09 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1558616780 |
The best way to learn history is to visualize it! Since 1998, Josh MacPhee has commissioned and produced over one hundred posters by over eighty artists that pay tribute to revolution, racial justice, women's rights, queer liberation, labor struggles, and creative activism and organizing. Celebrate People's History! presents these essential moments—acts of resistance and great events in an often hidden history of human and civil rights struggles—as a visual tour through decades and across continents, from the perspective of some of the most interesting and socially engaged artists working today. Celebrate People's History includes artwork by Cristy Road, Swoon, Nicole Schulman, Christopher Cardinale, Sabrina Jones, Eric Drooker, Klutch, Carrie Moyer, Laura Whitehorn, Dan Berger, Ricardo Levins Morales, Chris Stain, and more.
From Resistance to Revolution
Title | From Resistance to Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Pauline Maier |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN | 9780394719375 |
"An intellectual interpretation of the American revolution that raises it to a new height of comprehensiveness and significance. A superbly detailed account of the ideological escalation . . . that brought Americans to revolution." -Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review
Women, Resistance and Revolution
Title | Women, Resistance and Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Sheila Rowbotham |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2014-01-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1781681465 |
This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World. Sheila Rowbotham shows how women rose against the dual challenges of an unjust state system and social-sexual prejudice. Women, Resistance and Revolution is an invaluable historical study, as well as a trove of anecdote and example fit to inspire today’s generation of feminist thinkers and activists.
The Counter-Revolution of 1776
Title | The Counter-Revolution of 1776 PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Horne |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2014-04-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1479808725 |
Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt. Prior to 1776, anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain and in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were in revolt. For European colonists in America, the major threat to their security was a foreign invasion combined with an insurrection of the enslaved. It was a real and threatening possibility that London would impose abolition throughout the colonies—a possibility the founding fathers feared would bring slave rebellions to their shores. To forestall it, they went to war. The so-called Revolutionary War, Horne writes, was in part a counter-revolution, a conservative movement that the founding fathers fought in order to preserve their right to enslave others. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 brings us to a radical new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States.
Fragile Resistance
Title | Fragile Resistance PDF eBook |
Author | John Foran |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 419 |
Release | 2019-04-09 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0429722869 |
This book analyzes the processes of social transformation in Iran from the height of the country's power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries under the Safavid dynasty to the aftermath of the startling revolution that overthrew the Pahlavi monarchy in 1979.