History Buffs Read American Insurgents, American Patriots for January
About the Book
Before there could be a revolution, there was a
rebellion; before patriots, there were insurgents. Challenging and
displacing decades of received wisdom, T. H. Breen’s strikingly original
book explains how ordinary Americans—most of them members of farm
families living in small communities—were drawn into a successful
insurgency against imperial authority.
A few celebrated figures in the
Continental Congress do not make for a revolution. It requires tens of
thousands of ordinary men and women willing to sacrifice, kill, and be
killed. Breen not only gives the history of these ordinary Americans
but, drawing upon a wealth of rarely seen documents, restores their
primacy to American independence. Mobilizing two years before the
Declaration of Independence, American insurgents in all thirteen
colonies concluded that resistance to British oppression required
organized violence against the state. They channeled popular rage
through elected committees of safety and observation, which before 1776
were the heart of American resistance. American Insurgents, American Patriots is the stunning account of the insurgency that led to the nation’s founding.
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