Limit this search to....

The Minutemen and Their World Twenty-Fifth An Edition
Contributor(s): Gross, Robert A. (Author), Taylor, Alan (Foreword by), Gross, Robert A. (Epilogue by)
ISBN: 0809001209     ISBN-13: 9780809001200
Publisher: Hill & Wang
OUR PRICE:   $15.30  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: April 2001
* Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Winner of the Bancroft Prize
"The Minutemen and Their World," first published in 1976, is reissued now in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a new Foreword by Alan Taylor and a new Afterword by the author.
On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The "shot heard round the world" catapulted this sleepy New England town into the midst of revolutionary fervor, and Concord went on to become the intellectual capital of the new republic. The town--future home to Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne--soon came to symbolize devotion to liberty, intellectual freedom, and the stubborn integrity of rural life. In "The Minutemen and Their World," Robert Gross has written a remarkably subtle and detailed reconstruction of the lives and community of this special place, and a compelling interpretation of the American Revolution as a social movement.

Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
- History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt)
Dewey: 974.272
LCCN: 75046595
Series: American Century
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.54" W x 8.28" (0.57 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
- Cultural Region - New England
- Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

Winner of the Bancroft Prize

The Minutemen and Their World, first published in 1976, is reissued now in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a new Foreword by Alan Taylor and a new Afterword by the author.

On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The shot heard round the world catapulted this sleepy New England town into the midst of revolutionary fervor, and Concord went on to become the intellectual capital of the new republic. The town--future home to Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne--soon came to symbolize devotion to liberty, intellectual freedom, and the stubborn integrity of rural life. In The Minutemen and Their World, Robert Gross has written a remarkably subtle and detailed reconstruction of the lives and community of this special place, and a compelling interpretation of the American Revolution as a social movement.


Contributor Bio(s): Taylor, Alan M.: - Alan M. Taylor is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis. He received his B.A. in 1987 from King's College, Cambridge, U.K and earned his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1992. Taylor has been teaching international macroeconomics, growth, and economic history at UC Davis since 1999, where he directs the Center for the Evolution of the Global Economy. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and coauthor (with Maurice Obstfeld) of Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis and Growth (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Taylor was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004 and was a visiting professor at the American University in Paris and London Business School in 2005-06. He lives in Davis, with his wife Claire, and has two young children, Olivia and Sebastian.Gross, Robert A.: - Robert A. Gross is Forrest Murden, Jr. Professor of History and American Studies at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of The Minutemen and Their World. He lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.