A people's history of the American Revolution : how common people shaped the fight for independence
(2011)
By:
Raphael, Ray
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : The New Press, 2011
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Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781620972809 (electronic bk.) MWT12430014, 1620972808 (electronic bk.) 12430014
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Upon its initial publication, Ray Raphael's magisterial A People's History of the American Revolution was hailed by NPR's Fresh Air as "relentlessly aggressive and unsentimental." With impeccable skill, Raphael presented a wide array of fascinating scholarship within a single volume, employing a bottom-up approach that has served as a revelation. A People's History of the American Revolution draws upon diaries, personal letters, and other Revolutionary-era treasures. Raphael shifts the focus away from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to the slaves they owned, the Indians they displaced, and the men and boys who did the fighting
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