American Honor

The Creation of the Nation's Ideals During the Revolutionary Era

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom, it was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as "honor" and "virtue." As Craig Bruce Smith demonstrates, these concepts were crucial aspects of Revolutionary Americans' ideological break from Europe and shared by all ranks of society. Focusing his study primarily on prominent Americans who came of age before and during the Revolution - notably John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington - Smith shows how a colonial ethical transformation caused and became inseparable from the American Revolution, creating an ethical ideology that still remains.By also interweaving individuals and groups that have historically been excluded from the discussion of honor - such as female thinkers, women patriots, slaves, and free African Americans - Smith makes a broad and significant argument about how the Revolutionary era witnessed a fundamental shift in ethical ideas. This thoughtful work sheds new light on a forgotten cause of the Revolution and on the ideological foundation of the United States.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-08-01
Mått:155 x 233 x 21 mm
Vikt:562 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN:9781469661582

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Craig Bruce Smith is assistant professor of military history at the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies.

Recensioner i media

“Fresh perspectives and an author's willingness to take on orthodoxy are the hallmarks of books worth reading. Craig Bruce Smith provides these attributes in his new volume that conveys the story of the American Revolution through an ethical lens. Focusing not on the battles, he offers a new causation theory for the armed rebellion and why changes in ethical thinking created a common cause for the rebels, which was instrumental in the success of the Revolution.”- Eugene Procknow“Smith has succeeded in writing an important book that revolutionary historians and anyone interested in the place of ethics in public life should read.”- Mark Boonshoft, The Junto“Readers will appreciate Smith's insights into the formation of American national ideals. He scaled a mountain of archival research. . . . [and] writes with fluidity and power, forging his disparate materials into a cohesive shape while retaining a great deal of rich detail.”- American Historical Review“An engaging and scholarly exploration of the way honor and virtue motivated the colonists who created the American republic.”- The New Criterion“A highly original work that deals gracefully with difficult and often amorphous terms and that succeeds in reinvigorating debates on honor culture, inching us closer to a more holistic understanding of the American Revolution.”- Journal of Southern History