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《EARLY HISTORIES》.pdf
The American Revolution: a historiographical introduction
he literary monument to the American Revolution is vast. Shelves and now digital
Tstores of scholarly articles, collections of documents, historical monographs and
bibliographies cover all aspects of the Revolution. To these can be added great range
of popular titles, guides, documentaries, films and websites. The output shows no signs
of slowing. The following guide is by no means exhaustive, but seeks to define some of
the contours of this output, charting very roughly the changing ways in which the
Revolution has been understood or used by writers from the Revolution to recent times.
Needless to say, every generation rewrites the Revolution according to its own
concerns, but the questions posed by the Revolution – How is the Revolution to be
defined? Did the idea of liberty, the demands of politics, or the realities of economics
and society predominate? Is America in some way ‘exceptional’? – continue to be
addressed. A short bibliography, including helpful and accessible introductory and
historiographical works, follows this short essay.
EARLY HISTORIES
In 1788, William Gordon, a dissenting minister, published the first proper history of the
Revolution, his four-volume, epistolary History of the Rise, Progress and Establishment
of the Independence of the United States of America.1 Gordon noted in the preface to
his work that ‘History has been stiled, “The evidence of time - The light of truth - The
school of v
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