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The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America

by Gary B. Nash

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A broader social history of the Revolution

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A broader social history of the Revolution

Gary B. Nash reframes the American Revolution through the many groups whose political demands and conflicts shaped the nation’s founding years. The book brings together patriots across social classes and racial backgrounds, including religious visionaries, enslaved Africans, women frustrated by their exclusion, and Indigenous people confronting colonial grievances. Their goals were not uniform, and the account emphasizes both collaboration and disagreement as revolutionary ideas took form. By centering participants often left outside traditional founding narratives, Nash examines democracy as an unsettled struggle over who could claim freedom, political voice, and belonging in the new United States.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in U.S. Revolutionary-era history beyond familiar founding figures
  • Those seeking social histories of democracy, race, class, gender, and Indigenous politics
  • Adult readers interested in contested accounts of America’s founding

Themes

American RevolutionDemocracy and political participationRace and enslavementWomen and exclusionIndigenous grievances

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Book overview

In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society.

From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this book did not all agree or succeed, but during the exhilarating and messy years of this country's birth, they laid down ideas that have become part of our inheritance and ideals toward which we still strive today.
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