A Season of Youth: The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination

by Michael Kammen

Book Overview

"Its methodological freshness--the use of literature and art as historical artifacts, its focus on the popular as a subject for study, the introduction of anthropological tools--alone warrants... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195027078
• ISBN13: 9780195027075
• Release Date: February 1980
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Changing Revolution

It may take a more sophisticated understanding of history to appreciate a whole book on historiography, but anyone who is more than passingly interested in the American Revolution might want to take at least a browse through Michael Kammen's well-crafted tome. I found that the book challenged me to seperate the Revolution's heady mythology from the truth for the first time. Still more valuable, perhaps, was that as I read the book, I was immersed in the hard cider and bootstraps world of the new Republic. While Kammen lapses occasionally into informal banter and has a rather odd sense of humor, it doesn't detract much from the monumental amount of work, scholarship and insight that is represented here.