The American Revolution: Its Character and Limits

by Jack P. Greene (Editor)

Papers presented at a symposium held at Johns Hopkins University, Mar. 29-30, 1985; sponsored by the School of Continuing Studies and the Dept. of History of the Johns Hopkins University.

Contents:
Introduction: The limits of the American revolution / Jack P. Greene --
The problem of national defense in the early American republic / E. Wayne Carp --
The reintegration of the Loyalists and the disaffected / Robert M. Calhoon --
Force, order, and democracy in the American Revolution / John W. Shy --
From one agenda to another: the condition of American federalism, 1783-1787 / Jack N. Rakove --
The problem of power: parties, aristocracy, and democracy in revolutionary thought / Lance Banning --
The ambiguities of power / J.R. Pole --
An unfinished revolution: the quest for economic independence in the early republic / Drew R. McCoy --
Two republics in a hostile world: the United States and the Netherlands in the 1780s / Jonathan R. Dull --
The American republic in a wider world / Don Higginbotham --
Settlers, settlements, and new states / Peter S. Onuf --
Declarations of independence: Indian-white relations in a new nation / James H. Merrell --
Self-interest conquers patriotism: republicans, liberals, and Indians reshape the nation / Jon M. Murrin --
Liberty, equality, and slavery: the paradox of the American Revolution / Sylvia R. Frey --
Dependence in the era of independence: the role of women in a republican society / Elaine F. Crane --
On the bracketing of Blacks and women in the same agenda / Winthrop D. Jordan --
Creating a republican citizenry / Melvin Yazawa --
Creating a usable future: the revolutionary historians and the national past / Lester H. Cohen --
Familial politics, seduction, and the novel: the anxious agenda of an American literary culture / Jay Fliegelman --
Illusions and disillusions in the American Revolution / Gordon S. Wood --
Whither the sons (and daughters)?: republican nature and the quest for the ideal / Catherine L. Albanese --
In pursuit of religious freedom: church, state, and people in the new republic / Nathan O. Hatch --
Religion in the aftermath of the American Revolution / Patricia U. Bonomi.

448 pages, Hardcover

First published December 15, 1987

About the author

Jack P. Greene is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University.