TR3.5

Historiography Of The Revolution Reading Notes

Huxley Marvit 2021-10-07 Thu 14:25

#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.
  • 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
  • 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

' 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.
  • what it's not
    • people were just morally superior
      • freedom-lovers guided by greats model
    • divine luck
  • 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
      • 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

#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