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The Long American Revolution and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
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The Long American Revolution and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
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This book brings together Lester D. Langley's personal and
professional link to the long American Revolution in a narrative
that spans more than 150 years and places the Revolution in
multiple contexts-from the local to the transatlantic and
hemispheric and from racial and gendered to political, social,
economic, and cultural perspectives. It offers a reminder that we
are an old republic but a young nation and shows how an awareness
of that dynamic is critical to understanding our current political,
cultural, and social malaise. The United States of America is still
a work in progress. A descendant on his father's side from a long
line of Kentuckians, Langley grew up torn between a father who
embodied the idea of the Revolution's poor white male driven by
economic self-interest and racial prejudices and a devoted and
pious mother who saw life and history as a morality play. The
author's intellectual and professional "encounter" with the
American Revolution came in the 1960s as a young historian
specializing in U.S. foreign relations and Latin American history,
an era when the U.S. encounter with the revolution in Cuba and with
the civil rights movement at home served as a reminder of the
lasting and troublesome legacy of a long American Revolution. In a
sweeping account that incorporates both the traditional, iconic
literature on the Revolution and more recent works in U.S.,
Canadian, Latin American, Caribbean, and Atlantic world history,
Langley addresses fundamental questions about the Revolution's
meaning, continuing relevance, and far-reaching legacy.
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