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- 题名/责任者:
- The common cause : creating race and nation in the American Revolution / Robert G. Parkinson.
- 出版发行项:
- Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469626635 :
- ISBN:
- 1469626632
- 载体形态项:
- Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c2016
- 个人责任者:
- Parkinson, Robert G., author.
- 论题主题:
- Racism-United States-History-18th century.
- 地理名称主题:
- United States-History-Revolution, 1775-1783-Propaganda.
- 地理名称主题:
- United States-History-Revolution, 1775-1783-Social aspects.
- 中图法分类号:
- K712.4
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 内容附注:
- "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.
- 摘要附注:
- "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"--
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