#ret #ref #disorganized #incomplete #hw
1 Historiography of the revolution prez prep
the flow: KBxHistoriographyOfTheRevolutionReadingNotes
Our reading: The Marketplace of Revolution
What is the author’s argument? Note that argument and purpose, while related, are not the same thing
1.1 Summary
- shoudn't take popular mobilization for granted
- all these challenges:
- local jealousies,
- mutual ignorance,
- fear,
- clashing identities,
- etc.
- all these challenges:
- the question: how did colonists overcome all of this so they could organize around a political vision with strangers over a huge disconnected territory
- what it's not:
- people were just morally superior
- freedom-lovers guided by greats model
- people were just morally superior
- it is about:
- all about the formation of an imagined community
- imagined community created by
- shared rejection of British goods
- cultural resources
- good rejection
- oppression
- stamp act
- shattered idea of shared identity with british
- stamp act
' save you money and you will save your country
1.1.1 broad level overview
- why it's important to analyze
- what it's not
- the question: how?
- creation of imagined community
- consumes cultural resources
1.1.2 finer
- why it's important to analyze
- cant take it for granted! lots of challenges
- local jealousies,
- mutual ignorance,
- fear,
- clashing identities,
- etc.
- cant take it for granted! lots of challenges
- what it's not
- people were just morally superior
- freedom-lovers guided by greats model
- divine luck
- people were just morally superior
- the question: how?
- the question: how did colonists overcome all of this so they could organize around a political vision with strangers over a huge disconnected territory
- creation of imagined community
- consumes cultural resources
- oppression – shatter
- stamp act
- shattered idea of shared identity with Britain
- stamp act
- goods – assemble
- all imported from Britain, so shared range of goods across distant colonies
- united by rejection of goods
- invented the consumer boycott
- does two things:
- allows people to participate who normally don't get a say in politics
- very visible, homemade clothes in a culture which values fashion
- does two things:
- invented the consumer boycott
- oppression – shatter
- consumes cultural resources
#extract
2 the essay!
Class, class, and class!
the rejected fashion, about class not race, uneducated people can't read so not ideological
read aloud -> dont need to be literate
about class strucutre: many headed hydra transnational working class that are the root of the revolution