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v Contents Introduction 1 Gregory H. Nobles and Alfred F. Young American Historians Confront “The Transforming Hand of Revolution” 13 Alfred F. Young Introduction 13 I. J. Franklin Jameson 16 1. The Jameson Thesis: The Text 16 2. The Jameson Thesis: The Context 19 3. Jameson’s Achievement 31 II. Progressives and Counter-Progressives 33 4. The Progressive Historians 33 5. The Counter-Progressives: Part 1 47 6. Against the Grain 59 7. The Counter-Progressives: Part 2 65 III. New Left, New Social History 75 8. The New Left 75 9. The New Social History 89 10. Explorations: New Left, New Social, New Progressive 96 IV. Synthesis 101 11. The Transformation of Early American History 101 12. Toward a New Synthesis? 114 vi Contents Historians Extend the Reach of the American Revolution 135 Gregory H. Nobles Introduction 135 I. Refocusing on the Founders 137 1. Twenty-first-Century “Founders Chic” 137 2. The Elite Critique of Social History 141 II. Redefining Freedom in the Revolution 144 3. The Contradiction of Slavery 144 4. The Revolution of the Enslaved 148 5. Emancipation’s Fate in the Revolutionary Era 152 6. The Founders’ Failures on Slavery 156 III. Facing the Revolution from Indian Country 172 7. Native American Perspectives on Euro-American Struggles 172 8. Eighteenth-Century American Empires 181 IV. Reconsidering Class in the American Revolution 192 9. The Roots and Resurgence of Class Analysis 192 10. The Urban Context of Class 196 11. Class in the Countryside 208 V. Writing Women into the Revolution 224 12. Energy and Innovation since 1980 224 13. New Approaches to Elite Women’s Lives 230 14. The Historical Recovery of Ordinary Women’s Lives 235 15. Women in the Post-Revolutionary Public Sphere 246 Afterword 257 Gregory H. Nobles Acknowledgments 265 Index 267 About the Authors 287 ...

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