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The common cause creating race and nation in the American Revolution
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The common cause [electronic resource] : creating race and nation in the American Revolution / by Robert G. Parkinson.
ISBN
1469628104
9781469628103
9781469626635 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2016] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Summary
"In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that to unify the patriot side, political and communications leaders linked British tyranny to colonial prejudices, stereotypes, and fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent Indians. Manipulating newspaper networks, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and their fellow agitators broadcast stories of British agents inciting African Americans and Indians to take up arms against the American rebellion. Using rhetoric like "domestic insurrectionists" and "merciless savages," the founding fathers rallied the people around a common enemy and made racial prejudice a cornerstone of the new Republic"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 History.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 28, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"A work of difficulty": communication networks, newspapers, and the common cause
Interlude: the "shot heard 'round the world" revisited
"Britain has found means to unite us": 1775
Merciless savages, domestic insurrectionists, and foreign mercenaries: independence
"By the American Revolution you are now free": sticking together in trying times
"It is the cause of heaven against hell": to the Carlisle Commission, 1777-1778
Interlude: Franklin and Lafayette's "Little book"
"A striking picture of barbarity": Wyoming to the disaster at Savannah, 1778-1779
"This class of Britain's heroes": From the fall of Charleston to Yorktown
"The substance is truth": after Yorktown, 1782-1783
"New provocations": The political and cultural consequences of revolutionary war stories.
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