Revolutionary America.

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This course examines the causes, process, and effects of the American Revolution from roughly 1763 through 1829. Among other topics, lectures and readings will consider how British authority collapsed, the ideological and economic origins of republicanism, the effects of the Revolution on social, racial, and gender hierarchies, the contested creation of a new republic in its wake, and the economic and social development of the United States in its formative decades. {Also offered for graduate credit - see HIST 621 .}.