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2016-03-24 02:19:19 Post No. 7844855
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2016-03-24 02:19:19
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Would anyone mind having a read on my introduction for an essay?
The essay is on whether the American Revolution was a revolution or not.
The American War of Independence, or the American Revolution, as it is otherwise - and, as will be established in this essay, inaccurately - known as, is an event that has inspired a rich historiography, with the subject of discourse often regarding whether it truly was a revolution. There have been neo-Whig scholars who have been convinced that the War of Independence was a progressive, radical movement, with far reaching social upheaval – a complete social transformation; such is the view of Gordon S. Wood in The Radicalism of the American Revolution (2014). Although Neil Davidson does argue that radical and irreversible change is indeed a qualification for a movement to be hailed as a revolution (p. 10, 2012), he does not agree with Wood that the American Revolution fits this qualification, dismissing it as merely a political movement, and one that did not alter the social fabric of the colonies (p. 59, 2012). While there are those who argue that by simply overhauling the political framework of the American colonies, the War of Independence was therefore a revolution, a political revolution – as defined by Hal Draper, one that emphasizes ‘changes in governmental leadership and forms, transformations in the superstructure’ (pp. 19-20, 1978). Nevertheless, for the purpose of this inquiry, the concept of bourgeois revolution will be the theory used to reach a conclusion in regards to whether the Revolutionary War deserves to be categorized as a revolution. However the judgment that it was not a revolution is one that is abundantly clear, as evidenced by the Revolutionary War’s lack of impact on the development of capitalism, the contradictions of the promises of the constitution with what was the reality for ethnic minorities and women, as well as …………..
(ellipses represent other factors of why the revolution was not a revolution).
