LEADER 03922nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910455360003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-02025-1 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674020252 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805444 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000179340 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11165249 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000179340 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10137808 035 $a(PQKB)10396766 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300738 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300738 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10331324 035 $a(OCoLC)923117233 035 $a(DE-B1597)571771 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674020252 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805444 100 $a20020103d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInheriting the revolution$b[electronic resource] $ethe first generation of Americans /$fJoyce Appleby 205 $a1st Harvard University Press paperback ed. 210 $aCambridge, MA $cBelknap Press$d2001 215 $aviii, 322 p. $cill 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-00236-9 311 $a0-674-00663-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [269]-311) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tPreface -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $t1 Introduction -- $t2 Responding to a Revolutionary Tradition -- $t3 Enterprise -- $t4 Careers -- $t5 Distinctions -- $t6 Intimate Relations -- $t7 Reform -- $t8 A New National Identity -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aBorn after the Revolution, the first generation of Americans inherited a truly new world?and, with it, the task of working out the terms of Independence. Anyone who started a business, marketed a new invention, ran for office, formed an association, or wrote for publication was helping to fashion the world?s first liberal society. These are the people we encounter in Inheriting the Revolution, a vibrant tapestry of the lives, callings, decisions, desires, and reflections of those Americans who turned the new abstractions of democracy, the nation, and free enterprise into contested realities. Through data gathered on thousands of people, as well as hundreds of memoirs and autobiographies, Joyce Appleby tells myriad intersecting stories of how Americans born between 1776 and 1830 reinvented themselves and their society in politics, economics, reform, religion, and culture. They also had to grapple with the new distinction of free and slave labor, with all its divisive social entailments; the rout of Enlightenment rationality by the warm passions of religious awakening; the explosion of small business opportunities for young people eager to break out of their parents? colonial cocoon. Few in the nation escaped the transforming intrusiveness of these changes. Working these experiences into a vivid picture of American cultural renovation, Appleby crafts an extraordinary?and deeply affecting?account of how the first generation established its own culture, its own nation, its own identity. The passage of social responsibility from one generation to another is always a fascinating interplay of the inherited and the novel; this book shows how, in the early nineteenth century, the very idea of generations resonated with new meaning in the United States. 606 $aSocial structure$zUnited States$yTo 1865 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$y1783-1865 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$yTo 1865 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xInfluence 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSocial structure 676 $a973 700 $aAppleby$b Joyce Oldham$0141892 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455360003321 996 $aInheriting the revolution$91218456 997 $aUNINA