John Murrin is one of the foremost scholars of early America and is the author of over 50 essays and the textbook Liberty, Equality, Power. He is a former President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and was for over 30 years a professor of history at Princeton University.Andrew Shankman, Associate Professor at Rutgers University-Camden, is the author of Original Intents: Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and the American Founding and Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania, and the editor of The World of the Revolutionary American Republic: Land, Labor, and the Conflict for a Continent and Anglicizing America: Empire, Revolution, Republic.

Rethinking America will also be profitable reading for professional historians who — like this reviewer-might have read Murrin's articles at various stages of their research and career, and who, by reading them together in a book, will come to appreciate the unity, coherence, and straightforwardness of Murrin's scholarship. In any case, these essays — thought — provoking and imaginative in content, humorous and engaging in style — are well worth rereading

• Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Revolutionary Republic of a Radical, Imperial, Whig: The Historical and Historiographical Imagination of John M. Murrin- Andrew Shankman Part I: An OverviewChapter 1: The Great Inversion, or, Court versus Country: A Comparison of the Revolution Settlements in England (1688-1721) and America (1776-1816) Part II: Toward RevolutionChapter 2: No Awakening, No Revolution? More Counterfactual SpeculationsChapter 3: The French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the Counterfactual Hypothesis: Reflections on Lawrence Henry Gipson and John ShyChapter 4: Feudalism, Communalism, and the Yeoman Freeholder: The American Revolution Considered as a Social Accident (with Rowland Berthoff)Chapter 5: 1776: The Countercyclical Revolution Part III: Defining the RepublicChapter 6: A Roof Without Walls: The Dilemma of American National IdentityChapter 7: Fundamental Values, the Founding Fathers, and the ConstitutionChapter 8: The Making and Unmaking of an American Ruling Class (with Gary J. Kornblith)Chapter 9: Escaping Perfidious Albion: Federalism, Fear of Aristocracy, and the Democratization of Corruption in Postrevolutionary AmericaChapter 10: War, Revolution, and Nation-Making: The American Revolution versus the Civil War Conclusion: Self-Immolation: Schools of Historiography and the Coming of the American Revolution

John Murrin is one of the foremost scholars of early America and is the author of over 50 essays and the textbook Liberty, Equality, Power. He is a former President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and was for over 30 years a professor of history at Princeton University.Andrew Shankman, Associate Professor at Rutgers University-Camden, is the author of Original Intents: Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and the American Founding and Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania, and the editor of The World of the Revolutionary American Republic: Land, Labor, and the Conflict for a Continent and Anglicizing America: Empire, Revolution, Republic.

Rethinking America will also be profitable reading for professional historians who — like this reviewer-might have read Murrin's articles at various stages of their research and career, and who, by reading them together in a book, will come to appreciate the unity, coherence, and straightforwardness of Murrin's scholarship. In any case, these essays — thought — provoking and imaginative in content, humorous and engaging in style — are well worth rereading

• Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Revolutionary Republic of a Radical, Imperial, Whig: The Historical and Historiographical Imagination of John M. Murrin- Andrew Shankman Part I: An OverviewChapter 1: The Great Inversion, or, Court versus Country: A Comparison of the Revolution Settlements in England (1688-1721) and America (1776-1816) Part II: Toward RevolutionChapter 2: No Awakening, No Revolution? More Counterfactual SpeculationsChapter 3: The French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the Counterfactual Hypothesis: Reflections on Lawrence Henry Gipson and John ShyChapter 4: Feudalism, Communalism, and the Yeoman Freeholder: The American Revolution Considered as a Social Accident (with Rowland Berthoff)Chapter 5: 1776: The Countercyclical Revolution Part III: Defining the RepublicChapter 6: A Roof Without Walls: The Dilemma of American National IdentityChapter 7: Fundamental Values, the Founding Fathers, and the ConstitutionChapter 8: The Making and Unmaking of an American Ruling Class (with Gary J. Kornblith)Chapter 9: Escaping Perfidious Albion: Federalism, Fear of Aristocracy, and the Democratization of Corruption in Postrevolutionary AmericaChapter 10: War, Revolution, and Nation-Making: The American Revolution versus the Civil War Conclusion: Self-Immolation: Schools of Historiography and the Coming of the American Revolution