Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
THE FIRST GENERATION of Americans—inherited a truly new world—and, with it, the task of working out the 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 Inheriting the Revolution, a vibrant tapestry of the lives, callings, decisions, desires, and reflections of those Americans who turned the new abstractions of democracy, the nation, and free enterprise into contested realities.
Through data gathered on thousands of people, as well as hundreds of memoirs and autobiographies, Joyce Appleby tells myriad intersecting stories of how Americans who lived 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 labor, 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, Appleby crafts an extraordinary—and deeply affecting—account of 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 nineteenth century, the very idea of generations resonated with new meaning in the United States.
From the dust jacket.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Subjects
Social conditions, Influence, Social structure, History, United states, history, 1783-1865, United states, social conditions, to 1865, United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783, New York Times reviewed, United states, history, 1783-1809, United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783, influence, United States -- History -- 1783-1865., United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865., United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Influence., Sociaal-economische geschiedenisShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1
Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans
2009, Harvard University Press
in English
0674020251 9780674020252
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans
September 15, 2001, Belknap Press
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
0674006631 9780674006638
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
3
Inheriting the revolution: the first generation of Americans
2000, Belknap Press
in English
0674002369 9780674002364
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
4
Inheriting the revolution: the first generation of Americans
2000, Belknap Press
in English
0674002369 9780674002364
|
zzzz
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
First Sentence
""PETER RUGG, THE MISSING MAN" enjoyed the reputation of being the most popular short story of the early republic."
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Source records
Internet Archive item recordmarc_openlibraries_phillipsacademy MARC record
Better World Books record
marc_nuls MARC record
Links outside Open Library
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?March 8, 2023 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
October 5, 2021 | Edited by Jenner | Merge works |
January 30, 2010 | Edited by WorkBot | add more information to works |
December 11, 2009 | Created by WorkBot | add works page |