Stories of Independence

by Peter C. Messer

Peter C. Messer demonstrates that a strong sense of a shared past transformed British subjects into American citizens. He traces the emergence of distinctively American attitudes about society, politics, and government through the written history of the American experience. Stories of Independence argues that the way early Americans wrote about their own history--from colonial times, to the heady days of the Revolution, to the uneasy decades...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875803504
• ISBN13: 9780875803500
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher