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Inheriting the Revolution - The First Generation of Americans (Paperback, New edition)
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Inheriting the Revolution - The First Generation of Americans (Paperback, New edition)
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Born after the Revolution, 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 born 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.
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