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1 American Colonies
imagined community: people who never meet eachother still view themsevles as part of the same communuty -> this is an act of imagination
"As Anderson argues, the idea of an imagined sovereignty is inherently a product of the enlightenment rejection of rule by divine right."
need something to unite us?
ad-question In small groups, brainstorm the different ways in which we might find evidence of community formation in the American colonies. What factors seem most important to you? evidence of communication american exceptionalist text reference to colonies as one entity |
| trade routes? |
| similar laws in different areas macro: ideaology |
| similar goals / struggles - wanting to be a part of something - people have an inherent want to be a part of something better |
| - physical connection! - roads, ect. - which allows for trade! - called, internal market |
people had a "crisis of purpose" salem witch trials! yay… buncha explanations
1.1 Building a Revolutionary Society: Ideology and Identity
growth of material culture - erosion of deference - "listen to me because you will get my land when i die" - cant do so when there isnt enough land to do so
and, the great awakening
Aimed **to revive man's relationship with God**. Their purpose was to convince people that religious power was in their own hands, not the hands of the Church.
if everyone can do their own thing, why dont we get anarcho-canabalism?
- self mastery
- virginians: what holds people together is virtue
- have to be able to support yourself or else you lose that virtue
- jefferson: no one should be a wage earner, they should be able to
support themselves
- his def of freedom