322, illus., notes, index. Appleby presents a vibrant tapestry of the lives, callings, decisions, desires, and reflections of those Americans who were born after the American Revolution--the first generation to inherit a truly new world. This study of the generation that come of age just after the American Revolution examines the dynamic activity of nation-building and the unique challenges in politics, economics, religion, and everyday life that were markedly different from those faced by the Founding Fathers. Historian Appleby presents first-person accounts of Americans from a variety of groups who worked to shape an American identity.

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Titel

Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans

Verlag

The Belknap Press, Cambridge, MA

Erscheinungsjahr

2000

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0674002369

ISBN-13

9780674002364

Einband

Hardcover

Auflage

Third Printing.

Zustand

very good, very good

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Born after the Revolution, the first generation of Americans inherited a truly new world - and, with it, the task of working out terms of independence. Anyone who started a business, marketed a new invention, ran for office, formed an association, or wrote for publication was helping to fashion the world's first liberal society. These are the people we encounter in this book, a vibrant tapestry of the lives, callings, decisions, desires, and reflections of those Americans who turned the new abstractions of democracy, the nation, and the free enterprise into contested realities. Through data gathered on thousands of people, as well as hundreds of memoirs an autobiographies, the author tells myriad intersecting stories of how Americans born between 1776 and 1830 reinvented themselves and their society in politics, economics, reform, religion, and culture. They also had to grapple with the new distinction of free and slave labour, with all its divisive social entailments; the rout of Enlightenment rationality by the warm passions of religious awakening; the explosion of small business opportunities for young people eager to break out of their parents' colonial cocoon. Few in the nation escaped the transforming intrusiveness of these changes. Working these experiences into a vivid picture of American cultural renovation, the author accounts how the first generation established its own culture, its own nation, its own identity. The passage of social responsibility from one generation to another is always a fascinating interplay of the inherited and the novel; this book shows how, in the early 19th century, the very idea of generations resonated with new meaning in the United States.

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The result is an empirically grounded yet extraordinarily dynamic foray into the multivalent experience of America's first nation-builders...Appleby has nonetheless written a brilliant page-turner, filled with insights, and truly a feast of period detail for general history readers...Appleby has successfully taken on one of the most difficult tasks for early American historians: discovering the origins of American national identity in the welter of social and cultural forces shaping the new republic, while mindful of the civil calamity between North and South lying ahead.--Dee E. Andrews "The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography "

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