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An Understanding of the American Revolution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2009
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The study of the American Revolution probably loses something because we know how it came out, which may lead to creating interpretations unknown to the revolutionaries. Nevertheless, if we keep in mind the danger of finding omens to fit our prejudices, we may profit from a reappraisal aimed at better understanding.
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page 301 note * One can suggest a very tentative psychological hypothesis: rebels venerated abstract ideals — virtue, duty, the common good — above friends and blood ties. Loyalists' codes were personal, clannish, placing highest values on families and friends.
psge 303 note * Virtual representation would seem fair if the members of the Parliament paid the taxes they levied on America and said the money came from America by virtual taxation.
page 304 note * We must look away from the navy, which lost all but one of its ships, and was a waste of time, money, and lives.
page 309 note * Financially it was a real bargain. The cost of the Constitutional Convention to the public was $1165.90, about $12,000 in 1976 dollars, hardly enough to stage a local bicentennial commemoration.