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Item Information       Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content     More by this author     Parkinson, Robert G.     Subjects     Racism -- United States -- History -- 18th century.     Propaganda, American -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.     United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Propaganda.     United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Social aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Parkinson, Robert G.       by title:      The common cause : c...       by call number:      973.31 P248c     Search the Web     Parkinson, Robert G.     Racism -- United States -- History -- 18th century.     Propaganda, American -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.     United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Propaganda.     United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Social aspects.       MARC Display

The common cause : creating race and nation in the American Revolution / Robert G. Parkinson. by Parkinson, Robert G. Call #: 973.31 P248c Subjects Racism -- United States -- History -- 18th century.   Propaganda, American -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.   United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Propaganda.   United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Social aspects. ISBN:  9781469626635 (hc.) Description:  xxiii, 742 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  "A work of difficulty": communication networks, newspapers, and the common cause -- Interlude: the "shot heard 'round the world" revisited -- "Britain has found means to unite us": 1775 -- Merciless savages, domestic insurrectionists, and foreign mercenaries: independence -- "By the American Revolution you are now free": sticking together in trying times -- "It is the cause of heaven against hell": to the Carlisle Commission, 1777-1778 -- Interlude: Franklin and Lafayette's "Little book" -- "A striking picture of barbarity": Wyoming to the disaster at Savannah, 1778-1779 -- "This class of Britain's heroes": From the fall of Charleston to Yorktown -- "The substance is truth": after Yorktown, 1782-1783 -- "New provocations": The political and cultural consequences of revolutionary war stories. Summary:  When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. Historian Robert Parkinson argues that to unify the patriot side, political and communications leaders linked British tyranny to colonial prejudices, stereotypes, and fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent Indians. Manipulating newspaper networks, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and their fellow agitators broadcast stories of British agents inciting African Americans and Indians to take up arms against the American rebellion. Using rhetoric like "domestic insurrectionists" and "merciless savages," the founding fathers rallied the people around a common enemy and made racial prejudice a cornerstone of the new Republic. Robert G. Parkinson is assistant professor of history at Binghamton University. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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