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Summary:

"The Colonists' American Revolution aims to make history interesting and relevant to students by making the classroom a venue for debate between competing narratives, rather than memorization of a given narrative. This text helps students recognize that the tradition narrative of the Revolution is an argument; in presenting a dissenting interpretation of America's founding, it invites them to evaluate both narratives on the strength of evidence. This book presents the Revolution as an event that reflected colonial culture and politics, rather than as the national event it became retrospectively in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By providing a colonial scholar's view of the Revolution (a look to the Revolution from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries), this dissenting companion to the US History textbook offers a students an alternate understanding of the Revolution's chronology, causes, ends, and accomplishments. Presents the Revolution as an event that reflected colonial culture and politics, rather than as the national event is became retrospectively in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book therefore ends the Revolution in 1783, with military victory and the ratification of the Articles of Confederation. Provides students with dueling interpretations of America's founding and the invites them to evalute both narratives on the strength of evidence. The dual-perspective approach opens up to discussion of what it means to study history"-- [Provided by publisher]

Author/Creator:

Chet, Guy, 1968- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The Colonists' American Revolution: Preserving English Liberty, 1607-1783 [by Chet, G.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: The Colonists' American Revolution [by Chet, G.] (First edition; Hoboken : Wiley, 2019 — ISBN 9781119591863; LCCN 2019033177)

Subjects:

Revolutionaries — United States — History — 18th century — Juvenile literature

Revolutionaries — Great Britain — History — 18th century — Juvenile literature

United States — Politics and government — To 1775 — Juvenile literature

Great Britain — Politics and government — 1760-1789 — Juvenile literature

United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Causes — Juvenile literature

American Revolution (United States : 1775-1783)

To 1799

Revolutionaries

War — Causes

Politics and government

United States

Great Britain

Genres:

Juvenile works

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

E210 .C448 2019eb

ISBNs:

9781119591986 (epub)
1119591988
9781119591931 (adobe pdf)
1119591937
9781119591863 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2019033178

OCLC Numbers:

1114271352