Inheriting the Revolution
The First Generation of Americans
Published on 1. July 2009
336 pages
978-0-674-02025-2 (ISBN)
Description
Through data on thousands of people, and hundreds of memoirs and autobiographies, Appleby tells intersecting stories of how Americans born between 1776 and 1830 reinvented themselves and their society. Here are the lives, callings, desires, and reflections of Americans who turned democracy, the nation, and free enterprise into contested realities.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-02025-2 (9780674020252)
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09/2001
Harvard University Press
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Content
Contents 1 Introduction 2 Responding to a Revolutionary Tradition 3 Enterprise 4 Careers 5 Distinctions 6 Intimate Relations 7 Reform 8 A New National Identity Notes Index
