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Chapter Summary: The Marketplace Of Revolution

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The author’s purpose in writing The Marketplace of Revolution is to explain how Colonial America performed popular mobilization, revolutionize the way that people think of the American Revolution, and the causes of it also from an entirely new light that is incredibly different from any other historian that has ever told the story of the uprising of the American colonies against the all-powerful rule of the British monarchy. The author also sets out to show that the popular mobilization was not just a fluke or something that just come out of nowhere. This tells the story of why so many people came to the same conclusion of, “Give me liberty or give me death!” and fought back against seemingly insurmountable forces. The colonists had to overcome all the things that separated them and become united as a singular force. (pg. XII) The book makes the point that the goods that the Early Americans bought tells a vivid story by allowing …show more content…

XVI) and this was part of what made the consumer revolution successful in helping the American revolution. This argument is based on good logic, because it denied the British access to an easy source of funding that could have been used against the colonists. It is also reinforces this point by going into depth on this topic by showing how people voluntarily boycotting the products allowed the people to pick out who was loyal and who wasn’t and make people more aware of their own impact (pg.XVI) which is an ingenious use of boycotting that is so effective that certain movements still use it today. This very strongly supports the fact that the commercial revolution was important to the American revolution because it gives context to what it actually was and what it did. This argument significant in persuading the reader that historians are wrong to downplay the significance of boycotting imported

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