T. H. Breen
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Award-winning historian T.H. Breen has written extensively on the American Revolution. Recent works include The Marketplace of Revolution and American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People. He is currently the William Smith Mason Professor of American History Emeritus at vis mere Northwestern University and the James Marsh Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont. vis mindre
Værker af T. H. Breen
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (2004) 292 eksemplarer
Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution. (1985) 147 eksemplarer
Horses and Gentlemen: The Cultural Significance of Gambling Among the Gentry of Virginia 1 eksemplar
The character of a good ruler : a study of Puritan political ideas in New England 1630-1730 / by T. H. Breen 1 eksemplar
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Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era (1983) — Bidragyder — 108 eksemplarer
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- Breen, T. H.
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- Breen, Timothy Hall
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- 1942-09-05
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- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Greensboro, Vermont, USA
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- Yale University (B.A., MA, Ph.D.)
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- historian
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- Yale University
University of Chicago
University of Oxford
California Institute of Technology
Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies
Northwestern University - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Humboldt Prize
American Council of Learned Societies grant
Guggenheim Foundation grant
Institute of Advanced Study (Princeton) grant
National Humanities Center gran
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- T. H. Breen is the Director of the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies and William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968. He has taught at Northwestern since 1970.
In addition to receiving several awards for outstanding teaching at Northwestern, Breen has been the recipient of research grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), the National Humanities Center, and the Huntington Library. He has served as the Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford University (1987–1988), the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, Cambridge University (1990–1991), the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University (2000–2001), and was a recipient of the Humboldt Prize (Germany). [retrieved and adapted 8/25/2018 from Amazon.com Author Page]
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After finishing the book I had a peek at the comments of other readers. Some appreciated the study, some found it long winded, and some thought the subject was simply uninteresting.
I found it a subtle well-researched study with some profound and unexpected lessons for America today. But I won’t argue with those who found it a little too long.
Breen sees the 18th century as one long march for the colonials to becoming a new set of consumers, that the growing purchase of British consumer goods by the colonials became an irritant to relations with British Parliament, and that the new consumerism brought unexpected social changes to the colonies.
Take for example tea. At the opening of the 18th century tea was consumed by a small subset of wealthy colonials. By the 1750’s it had dropped in price and become available to many colonials, so much so that when Parliament levied tea duties many colonials were hit where it hurt the most: in the pocketbook.
Breen also finds the beginnings of coordination and cooperation between the colonies in commercial precedents, so that the model of civil reaction came from a newfound belief in the commercial boycott, then in a “subscription” model, what we would call petitions.
What I found jarring was how ordinary citizens took up the model of forcing their neighbours into an ideological conformity. If you didn’t sign the “subscription” you were suspect and assumed to favour the British.
Men blamed women for forcing their husbands to buy British goods and forced women to become involved in the political debate. And women had to be involved at a very basic level. Once women became involved they too helped enforce ideological purity and I couldn’t help but compare it to the ongoing debate about abortion.
A Supreme Court dominated by ideological Republicans is trying to enact ideological purity through its judgments. It runs against principles of individual conscience and personal freedom, but the anti-abortion groups use religious arguments to supersede arguments of personal freedom.
It also reminds me of the Soviet Union of the 1930’s, and Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
And the same happened in pre-Revolutionary America. It was the time of the first Great Awakening. Anti-British rhetoric made use of religious arguments to frame colonials’ enjoyment of fine clothing, china dishes, and tea as wasteful, and vice.
How similar do the pre-Revolutionary “Sons of Liberty” remind me of “Proud Boys” and some of the other splinter groups of the American right today. It’s mob rule and it’s chilling.… (mere)