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Independence Unfurled: Common Sense and the Constitution of the American Public

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This dissertation is a textual history of Thomas Paine's Common Sense and the American independence movement during the first half of 1776. The study uses the methodologies and vocabularies of rhetorical studies, early modern history, and political theory to analyze the 180-degree turn in colonial public opinion away from a...

Keyword:

Independence, Common Sense, 1776, Thomas Paine, and American Revolution

Subject:

Communication Studies

Creator:

Benjamin Ponder

Owner:

Jason Christ Chandra

Date Uploaded:

08/30/2018

Date Modified:

08/30/2018

Date Created:

2007-12-10

Resource Type:

Dissertation
The Popular Politics of Loyalism During the American Revolution, 1774-1790

Description:

A spokesman for the American Revolution, John Adams, famously claimed that a third of colonists supported independence, a third supported Britain, and a third remained neutral. Since then historians have struggled to understand the mixed loyalties of the Revolutionary generation. "The Popular Politics of Loyalism During the American Revolution, 1774-1790,"...

Keyword:

Popular Politics, Loyalism, Loyalist, and American Revolution

Subject:

History

Creator:

Christopher James Macintosh Sparshott

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

06/05/2018

Date Modified:

09/30/2019

Date Created:

2007-05-10

Resource Type:

Dissertation