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THE SHOEMAKER AND THE TEA PARTY: Memory and the American Revolution by Young

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Condition
Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
Binding
Paperback
Product Group
Book
Weight
1 lbs
IsTextBook
Yes
ISBN
9780807054055

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Beacon Press
ISBN-10
0807054054
ISBN-13
9780807054055
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1652901

Product Key Features

Book Title
Shoemaker and the Tea Party : Memory and the American Revolution
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Historical
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, History
Author
Alfred F. Young
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Anyone interested in the American Revolution must put this at the top of their reading list. Anyone who believes that revising history is a suspect activity can begin their reeducation here. -Gary Nash, author of History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past "Every schoolchild knows (or used to know) about the Boston Tea Party and its place in American Revolutionary history. But what was it really like at Griffin's Wharf on that famous night of December 16, 1773, when a band of patriots dumped the cargo of three British ships into the harbor? In The Shoemaker and the Tea Party, the historian Alfred F. Young tells the story by recounting the hitherto-obscure life of George Hewes, a struggling cobbler....The author makes the turmoil of the Colonial era in New England seem real and vivid....[A] thoughtful and revealing book." -Herbert Kupferberg, Parade Magazine "Significant and engaging....The reader not only receives a splendid case study in the workings of personal memory more than 160 years ago, but fresh insights into the process whereby survivors become heroes and patriotic myths are made." -Michael Kammen, The New England Quarterly "A wonderful model for anyone trying to reconstruct the life of an ordinary person involved in extraordinary historical events. Young's meditation on the construction of memory is extremely thoughtful and provocative." -Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, "Masterful....A major contribution to an understanding of the role of ordinary people in important events."-Michael Kenney, The Boston Globe
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
973.3/113
Synopsis
Honored in the 1830s for his participation in the Boston Tea Party, George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker, exemplified the role of the common man in the Revolution. Young pieces together this extraordinary tale, adding new insights of how memory shapes our understanding of history., George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary ear fifty years after the actual event, this 'common man' in his nineties was 'discovered' and celebrated in Boston as a national hero. Young pieces together this extraordinary tale, adding new insights about the role that individual and collective memory play in shaping our understanding of history.

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