School of Though on American Revolution InClass Prezs

courtesy of @exr0n: Forced founders (1999) (historiography book) - argument - cause was due to economic situation in colonies and England - chapter 1: viewpoints of the elite and land prospectors - colonists wanted to move west, but Britain wanted to prevent them from going west and getting into a war - chapter 2: two classes of British traders - economic and trading clash (taxes) - debtor and creditor relationships - forced immigration? - => wanted free market and free trade, which meant they needed independence - neoprogressive school - because it is economically motivated - each chapter focuses on a different way of how not being independent hurts them - discussion - colonial relationship: Britain uses debt and taxes to keep the population subservient

• radicalism of the american rev
• split between noble elite and common fold
  • then the gap was bridges and reduced
• mostly through social lens
• "radical social ideas of equality"
• united through common belief
  • best examined through the change in the lives of the common folk
• classical republican values predominated?
• historiography!
  • neowig
• social! united through values!
  • was not driven by the need for social change, but it create it?
• doesnt consider motivation by the powerful!
• land -> wealth
  • no class hierchy or fuedal system? so we get the american dream?
• natural meritocracy over hereditary wealth
• the goal: be disintrested in wealth! ie, have enough wealth to not have to worry.
  • right now, wealth is kinda its own pursuit, not a means to an end

• ideological origins of the american revolution
• part 6!
  • colonist text were legit, used newspapers alot
  • writters!
• a lot about economics, a lot of primary sources
• influenced by british political radicals
• taxes -> british is hoplessly corrupt
• britain -> escalating conflict & enslaving america
• it was britains fault!
• not chronoligal
  • more about ideas that guided ethos
    • also where the ideas came from and the people behind them
• corrupt british
• we care becauseeeee
  • primary sources
  • analysis of rational colonists
  • popular opinion of british
  • reductionist!
    • factual, not phycoanalysis? okkk
• america as noahs arc for liberty
  • pitts america vs. british
• disconent -> movement?
  • need to create an ideology that expresses the discontent
  • articulate the nebulous grivences!
    • liberty, conspiriacy -> vehicles
• classic revisionist history?
  • uh, not in the normal sense

• multiheaded "hydra"
• similar to new left
• based on the proletariat
  • the working class, not the elite -> thus, it's new left
• main arg:
  • all about class differences
    • not just a few 'great men'
  • highlights disenfranchised
  • 3 main sections:
    • sailors,
    • slaves,
    • mobs
• what comes around, goes around.