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Title: The Minutemen and Their World by Robert A. Gross ISBN: 0-8090-0120-9 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: 30 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.26 (19 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Gross=Facts
Comment: The Minutemen and Their World is a very informative book. So informative, at times I thought it was hard to recall of the specific details Gross talks about. The book deals with colonial Concord, MA before, during, and after the American Revolution. Gross wrote about many different people and families to portray their way of life in colonial Concord. The funny thing about this book is that the majority of the book details Concord before and after the revolution and there is only one chapter on the actual revolution. I personally found the book to be intriguing and truly interesting but it was difficult to recall all that I had read due to the amount of facts present in each chapter. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has to write a paper on colonial America or if you just really love history. Gross knows his facts and sighting passages from this book in a paper would truly impress your professor.
Rating: 2
Summary: Tons of information if you don't fall asleep
Comment: Why did I hate this book? Because it was so dry I had to read it in the shower so I didn't get dehydrated. In all seriousness this book was a pain to read and I found myself contemplating whether or not to jump out my window and end it all. The Minutemen and Their World is an in depth look at the town of Concord, Massachusetts during the American revolutionary period. Despite its title, it has almost nothing to do with the actual minutemen, instead focusing on the different aspects of life in Concord and how they were affected by the revolution. There were some good points to the book, the foremost being that it is chock full o information. Looking for information on what life was like in Massachusetts before, during and after the revolution? This is the book for you as long as you are looking for pure facts. The huge amount of factual information crammed into its pages is the main reason I disliked the book so much. Gross packs so much information into his book that it makes actually enjoying the book virtually impossible. He does delve deeply into the economic, social, religious and political aspects of Concord and by the end of the book the reader is quite familiar with what life in Concord was like back then. If he didn't bore you to death, this would be a great read.
To sum it all up: Looking for a plethora of facts? Read this book. Looking for something to entertain and educate you at the same time? Read something else.
Rating: 5
Summary: a pleasure to read? absolutely
Comment: I agree wholeheartedly with editorial reviewer David Hackett Fisher. This book reads almost like a novel, and yet it is a work of history--with solid research and scholarship, at that.
Gross argues that the Revolution provided Concord an opportunity to re-assert control over the community and its destiny. In the years preceding 1775-1776, great changes were sweeping across the colonies, particularly in traditional New England towns like Concord. For example, there was the problem of decreasing supplies of land, and fathers, with sometimes large numbers of sons, had difficulty providing for all his heirs (without dividing the land and, hence, making it less sustainable). Other issues were occurring specifically in Concord--such as the desire of its residents farther from the town to hire their own minister. So threatened, Concord was experiencing not just stasis but actual decline in these pre-Revolution years.
Therefore, with all these fluctuations and challenges, participation in the Revolution offered Concord a chance to seize initiative and regain control over its political and communal life, to restore its autonomy. Gross writes, "The men of 1775 had not gone to war to promote change but to stop it."
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Title: The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America by James Axtell ISBN: 0195029046 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 1982 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood ISBN: 0679736883 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The American Revolution: A History (Modern Library Chronicles) by Gordon S. Wood ISBN: 0679640576 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 22 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Castaways: The Narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca (Latin American Literature and Culture, No 10) by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Enrique Pupo-Walker, Frances M. Lopez-Morillas ISBN: 0520070631 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: August, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The First World War by Keith Robbins ISBN: 0192891499 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 1985 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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