The Freedoms We Lost: Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America

by Barbara Clark Smith and Barbara Clark Smith

Book Overview

A brilliant and original examination of American freedom as it existed before the Revolution, from the Smithsonian's curator of social history.

The American Revolution is widely understood--by schoolchildren and citizens alike--as having ushered in "freedom" as we know it, a freedom that places voting at the center of American democracy. In a sharp break from this view, historian Barbara Clark Smith charts the largely unknown territory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595581804
• ISBN13: 9781595581808
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"