The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement: 100th anniversary edition

A centennial edition of the classic work that instilled a liberal spirit into the study of American history

J. Franklin Jameson’s The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement was among the first books to look at American history through the lens of social change. This pioneering work argues that the most salient feature of the American Revolution was not the war for independence itself but rather the struggle between aristocratic values and those of the common people. Jameson show...