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Author

Parkinson, Robert G., author.

Title The common cause : creating race and nation in the American Revolution / Robert G. Parkinson.

Publication Info.

Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	973.31 P229c 2016	---	Available
Axe Special Collections Reitz	973.31 P229c 2016 c.2	---	Lib Use Only

1 copy being processed for Axe Acquisitions Order.

Description	xi, 742 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
	text rdacontent
	unmediated rdamedia
	volume rdacarrier
Summary	"In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that to unify the patriot side, political and communications leaders linked British tyranny to colonial prejudices, stereotypes, and fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent Indians. Manipulating newspaper networks, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and their fellow agitators broadcast stories of British agents inciting African Americans and Indians to take up arms against the American rebellion. Using rhetoric like "domestic insurrectionists" and "merciless savages," the founding fathers rallied the people around a common enemy and made racial prejudice a cornerstone of the new Republic"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	"A work of difficulty": communication networks, newspapers, and the common cause -- Interlude: the "shot heard 'round the world" revisited -- "Britain has found means to unite us": 1775 -- Merciless savages, domestic insurrectionists, and foreign mercenaries: independence -- "By the American Revolution you are now free": sticking together in trying times -- "It is the cause of heaven against hell": to the Carlisle Commission, 1777-1778 -- Interlude: Franklin and Lafayette's "Little book" -- "A striking picture of barbarity": Wyoming to the disaster at Savannah, 1778-1779 -- "This class of Britain's heroes": From the fall of Charleston to Yorktown -- "The substance is truth": after Yorktown, 1782-1783 -- "New provocations": The political and cultural consequences of revolutionary war stories.
Subject	United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Propaganda.
	United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Social aspects.
	Racism -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
	American Revolution (1775-1783) (OCoLC)fst01351668
	Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1700-1799
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9781469626635 (cloth : alk. paper)
	1469626632 (cloth : alk. paper)
	9781469626925 (ebook)