In the Midst of a Revolution

by David Hawke

Overview

In the Midst of a Revolution, originally published in 1961, provides a social history of Pennsylvania in the months before Independence, based on contemporary diaries and newspapers. The author, Dr. David Freeman Hawke, a teacher at Pace University in New York City, examines the events of Pennsylvania in 1776, which made it possible to overthrow the venerable Charter of Privileges of 1701, and to replace it with the more democratic Constitution of 1776.
A useful book with informative footnotes and an extensive bibliography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789125566
Publisher:	Papamoa Press
Publication date:	12/05/2018
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	195
File size:	682 KB

About the Author

David Freeman Hawke (1924-1999) was an American historian and author of several books discussing people and events in the American Revolution.
He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and received degrees from Swarthmore College, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Pennsylvania. He taught at Pace College for 14 years before joining Lehman College of the City University of New York in 1972, where he was Professor Emeritus of American History. He retired in 1986.
His book Benjamin Rush: Revolutionary Gadfly, a biography of the 18th-century physician, was nominated for a National Book Award in 1972. His other books included In the Midst of a Revolution (1961), Paine (1974) and Franklin (1976).
Dr. Hawke died on June 20, 1999 in Madison, Connecticut, aged 75.

He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and received degrees from Swarthmore College, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Pennsylvania. He taught at Pace College for 14 years before joining Lehman College of the City University of New York in 1972, where he was Professor Emeritus of American History. He retired in 1986.
His book Benjamin Rush: Revolutionary Gadfly, a biography of the 18th-century physician, was nominated for a National Book Award in 1972. His other books included In the Midst of a Revolution (1961), Paine (1974) and Franklin (1976).
Dr. Hawke died on June 20, 1999 in Madison, Connecticut, aged 75.

Table of Contents

Introduction
David Ruderman

1. Biography and Autobiography in Yohanan Alemanno's Literary Perception
—Fabrizio Lelli
2. Elijah Delmedigo: An Archetype of the Halakhic Man?
—Harvey Hames
3. Philo and Sophia: Leone Ebreo's Concept of Jewish Philosophy
—Giuseppe Veltri
4. Joseph ha-Kohen, Paolo Giovio and Sixteenth-Century Historiography
—Martin Jacobs
5. Religious Life and Jewish Erudition in Pisa: Yehiel Nissim da Pisa and the Crisis of Aristotelianism
—Alessandro Guetta
6. The Beautiful Soul: Azariah de' Rossi's Search for Truth
—Joanna Weinberg
7. The Teaching Program of David ben Abraham and His Son Abraham Provenzali in Its Historical-Cultural Context
—Gianfranco Miletto
8. Judah Moscato's Scholarly Self-Image and the Question of Jewish Humanism
—Adam Shear
9. As Framed, So Perceived: Salamone Rossi ebreo, Late Renaissance Musician
—Don Harrán
10. Amatus Lusitanus and the Location of Sixteenth-Century Cultures
—Eleazar Gutwirth
11. Italy in Safed, Safed in Italy: Toward an Interactive History of Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah
—Moshe Idel
12. A Bibliography of Jewish Cultural History in the Early Modern Period
—Giuseppe Veltri

List of Contributors
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Hawke's well written, fully documented, and hghly informative book gives the reader a clear view of an event that made a declaration of independence a reality for the colonies. . . . It is essential reading for students of the American Revolution."—American Historical Review

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