The American Revolution
Introduction by Cynthia A. Kierner
Preface by Johann N. Neem
Description
The long conflict that culminated in the American Revolution and the founding of the U.S. Republic upended the lives of men and women throughout the colonies. In a time of upheaval and uncertainty, they reinvented their lives, their communities, and their vision of the world.
Drawing from the pathbreaking scholarship published by the Omohundro Institute over the past fifty years, these essays reflect on the experiences and legacies of the struggle for American independence, from the first inklings of the imperial crisis through the war’s global aftershocks.
Contributors include David Armitage, Christopher Leslie Brown, Katherine Carté, Eliga H. Gould, Woody Holton, Rhys Isaac, Michael J. Jarvis, Maya Jasanoff, Linda K. Kerber, Cynthia Kierner, Michael A. McDonnell, Johann N. Neem, Mary Beth Norton, Robert G. Parkinson, Benjamin Quarles, John A. Ruddiman, Manisha Sinha, and Alfred F. Young.
About The Author
Nicholas Popper is professor of history at William & Mary and former interim editor of books at the Omohundro Institute.
Established in 1943, the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (OI) is the oldest organization in the United States exclusively dedicated to the scholars and scholarship of early America broadly understood. For more than fifty years, the OI’s editorial team has partnered with the University of North Carolina Press to produce award-winning books in the field of early American history, garnering a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, seven Bancroft Prizes, and more than two hundred other awards. The Omohundro Institute is also publisher of the William and Mary Quarterly, the leading journal of early American history and culture.
Reviews
“This superb collection explores lesser-known aspects of the American Revolution, including the participation of ordinary men and women, Native Americans, citizen soldiers, and enslaved people. Accessible to students, scholars, and general readers alike, the essays deepen our knowledge of the founding moment in our nation’s history.”—Rosemarie Zagarri, author of Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic
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