The Minutemen and Their World: (Revised and Expanded Edition) -- Robert a. Gross, Paperback

Winner of the Bancroft Prize

The Minutemen and Their World, first published in 1976, is reissued now in a revised and expanded edition with a new preface and afterword by the author.

On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The "shot heard round the world" catapulted this sleepy New England town into the midst of revolutionary fervor, and Concord went on to become the intellectual capital of the new republic. The town--future home to Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne--soon came to symbolize devotion to liberty, intellectual freedom, and the stubborn integrity of rural life.

In The Minutemen and Their World, Robert A. Gross has written a remarkably subtle and detailed reconstruction of the lives and community of this special place, and a compelling interpretation of the American Revolution as a social movement.

Author: Robert a. Gross
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 11/08/2022
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.50w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781250822949

About the Author
Robert A. Gross is the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Minutemen and Their World (1976), Books and Libraries in Thoreau's Concord (1988), and coeditor, with Mary Kelley, of An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840 (2010). His book The Transcendentalists and Their World will be published in 2021.