Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.
Loading... The Creation of America: Through Revolution to Empireby Francis Jennings
None Loading...
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Well researched but so insistent on trumpeting it's incredible revelations that it became a bit strident. What are the amazing revelations? We stole the land from the native inhabitants and were totally ok with slavery, despite any protestations to the contrary. I went to Catholic school, so maybe things are taught differently in public school, but both of these things were made perfectly clear to us by the nuns. And this back in the 70's and 80's ( ) no reviews | add a review
In the standard presentation of the American Revolution, a ragtag assortment of revolutionaries, inspired by ideals of liberty and justice, throw off the yoke of the British empire and bring democracy to the New World. In place of this fairy tale, Francis Jennings presents a realistic alternative: a privileged elite, dreaming of empire, clone their own empire from the British. This book, first published in 2000, shows that the colonists intended from the first to conquer American Indians. Though subordinate to the British crown, the colonists ruled over beaten native peoples. Some colonists bought Africans as slaves and rigidly ruled over them, and the colonists invented racial gradation to justify conquests and oppression. Jennings reveals as war propaganda the revolutionary rhetoric about liberty and virtue. Including the whole population in this meticulously documented history, Jennings provides an eloquent explanation for a host of anomalies, ambiguities, and iniquities that have followed in the American Revolution's wake. No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsNonePopular covers
Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)973.3History and Geography North America United States Revolution and confederation (1775-89)LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |