Taming Democracy The People, the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution |
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| Bouton, Terry |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-804187-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2007 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
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The narrative that has been passed down through the centuries is that the war was a triumph for ordinary people and their ideas of liberty and freedom. In this highly provocative book, Terry Bouton challenges this received wisdom about what was achieved in 1776. He argues that the American Revolution did not produce the democracy that was hoped for by the American people when they joined the Revolutionary movement. Bouton looks at rich and poor, urban and rural, patriots and loyalists,...
More DescriptionThe narrative that has been passed down through the centuries is that the war was a triumph for ordinary people and their ideas of liberty and freedom. In this highly provocative book, Terry Bouton challenges this received wisdom about what was achieved in 1776. He argues that the American Revolution did not produce the democracy that was hoped for by the American people when they joined the Revolutionary movement. Bouton looks at rich and poor, urban and rural, patriots and loyalists, Revolutionary leaders and founding Fathers, merchants and artisans, farmers and laborers. This economic and political analysis examines the effects of British taxation, changes in global trade, currency crises, and how they impacted ordinary people, who resisted the new federal Constitution and formed their own democratic initiatives.