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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1205590930 Title: Past and prologue : politics and memory in the American Revolution Author: Michael D Hattem Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press [2020] ISBN/ISSN: 9780300234961 0300234961 OCLC:1205590930

  
  

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Past and prologue : politics and memory in the American Revolution

Author:	Michael D Hattem
Publisher:	New Haven : Yale University Press [2020]
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	How American colonists reinterpreted their British and colonial histories to help establish political and cultural independence from Britain. In Past and Prologue, Michael Hattem shows how colonists' changing understandings of their British and colonial histories shaped the politics of the American Revolution and the origins of American national identity. Between the 1760s and 1800s, Americans stopped thinking of the British past as their own history and created a new historical tradition that would form the foundation for what subsequent generations would think of as "American history." This change was a crucial part of the cultural transformation at the heart of the Revolution by which colonists went from thinking of themselves as British subjects to thinking of themselves as American citizens. Rather than liberating Americans from the past-as many historians have argued-the Revolution actually made the past matter more than ever. Past and Prologue shows how the process of reinterpreting the past played a critical role in the founding of the nation.  Read more...
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Subjects	United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. United States -- History -- 1783-1815. View all subjects
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