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The Founding of a Nation
Merrill Jensen
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This wonderfully rich volume challenges those who claim that political history is arid, narrow, or worse, irrelevant to our own concerns. Jensen's study explores popular political mobilization on the eve of American independence. It reconstructs the complex decisions that slowly, often painfully transformed a colonial rebellion into a genuine revolution. Jensen's well-paced narrative never loses sight of the ordinary men and women who confronted the most powerful empire in the world. --T.H. Breen, William Smith Mason Professor of American History, Northwestern University
This wonderfully rich volume challenges those who claim that political history is arid, narrow, or worse, irrelevant to our own concerns. Jensen's study explores popular political mobilization on the eve of American independence. It reconstructs the complex decisions that slowly, often painfully transformed a colonial rebellion into a genuine revolution. Jensen's well-paced narrative never loses sight of the ordinary men and women who confronted the most powerful empire in the world. --T.H. Breen, William Smith Mason Professor of American History, Northwestern University
Product Details
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
735
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
1020g
Number of Pages
752
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9780872207059
SKU
V9780872207059
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About Merrill Jensen
Merrill Jensen was Vilas Research Professor of History, University of Wisconsin.
Reviews for The Founding of a Nation
This wonderfully rich volume challenges those who claim that political history is arid, narrow, or worse, irrelevant to our own concerns. Jensen's study explores popular political mobilization on the eve of American independence. It reconstructs the complex decisions that slowly, often painfully transformed a colonial rebellion into a genuine revolution. Jensen's well-paced narrative never loses sight of the ordinary men and women who confronted the most powerful empire in the world...
T H Breen, William Smith Mason Professor of American History, Northwestern University. After thirty-five years, Jensen's Founding of a Nation is still, by a good margin, the best one-volume history of the coming of the American Revolution...
John M Murrin, Princeton University. The Founding of a Nation is the best one-volume narrative political history of the American Revolution from 1763 to 1776. I have turned to it again and again for its clear, reliable accounts of events. It is a magnificent work by a master scholar based on an unsurpassed knowledge of the original sources...
Alfred Young, Senior Research Fellow, Newberry Library.
T H Breen, William Smith Mason Professor of American History, Northwestern University. After thirty-five years, Jensen's Founding of a Nation is still, by a good margin, the best one-volume history of the coming of the American Revolution...
John M Murrin, Princeton University. The Founding of a Nation is the best one-volume narrative political history of the American Revolution from 1763 to 1776. I have turned to it again and again for its clear, reliable accounts of events. It is a magnificent work by a master scholar based on an unsurpassed knowledge of the original sources...
Alfred Young, Senior Research Fellow, Newberry Library.