The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence
Author: T H Breen
The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable of galvanizing resistance. In a richly interdisciplinary narrative that weaves insights into a changing material culture with analysis of popular political protests, Breen shows how virtual strangers managed to communicate a sense of trust that effectively united men and women long before they had established a nation of their own.
The Marketplace of Revolution argues that the colonists' shared experience as consumers in a new imperial economy afforded them the cultural resources that they needed to develop a radical strategy of political protest--the consumer boycott. Never before had a mass political movement organized itself around disruption of the marketplace. As Breen demonstrates, often through anecdotes about obscure Americans, communal rituals of shared sacrifice provided an effective means to educate and energize a dispersed populace. The boycott movement--the signature of American resistance--invited colonists traditionally excluded from formal political processes to voice their opinions about liberty and rights within a revolutionary marketplace, an open, raucous public forum that defined itself around subscription lists passed door-to-door, voluntary associations, street protests, destruction of imported British goods, and incendiary newspaper exchanges. Within these exchanges was born a new form of politics in which ordinary man and women--precisely the people mostoften overlooked in traditional accounts of revolution--experienced an exhilarating surge of empowerment.
Breen recreates an "empire of goods" that transformed everyday life during the mid-eighteenth century. Imported manufactured items flooded into the homes of colonists from New Hampshire to Georgia. The Marketplace of Revolution explains how at a moment of political crisis Americans gave political meaning to the pursuit of happiness and learned how to make goods speak to power.
Government By the People, National Version
Author: David B Magleby
The most authoritative text for American Government, Government By the People is always one step ahead. Building on a long tradition of clear and accessible writing, sound scholarship, and currency, it has become the most reliable, responsive, and respected text for today’s American government course. Its distinguished author team addresses your needs and the needs of your students in every edition—with the most innovative response to teaching trends, as well as trends in the discipline. With this text’s essential foundation, students will be set to respond—as involved American citizens—to the political issues facing their country, and their world, in the twenty-first century.
Table of Contents:
1 Constitutional Democracy
2 The Living Constitution
3 American Federalism
4 Political Culture and Ideology
5 The American Political Landscape
6 Interest Groups: The Politics of Influence
7 Political Parties: Essential to Democracy
8 Public Opinion, Participation, and Voting
9 Campaigns and Elections: Democracy in Action
10 The Media and American Politics
11 Congress: The People’s Branch
12 The Presidency: The Leadership Branch
13 The Federal Administrative System: Executing the Laws
14 The Judiciary: The Balancing Branch
15 First Amendment Freedoms
16 Rights to Life, Liberty, and Property
17 Equal Rights Under the Law
18 Making Economic and Regulatory Policy
20 Making Foreign and Defense Policy
EPILOGUE: SUSTAINING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY
APPENDIX
GLOSSARY
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