| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Woody Holton. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va. 1999. Pp. xxi, 231. Cloth $39.95, paper $15.95.

Much debate has revolved around whether the American Revolution is better understood as a fight for home rule or over who should rule at home. Most recent historians arguing for the latter, neo-progressive interpretation have concentrated on the urban north. Woody Holton seeks to revitalize the neo-progressive view of the coming of the Revolution in Virginia. Virginia might appear to be one of the least promising states for such an interpretation: members of the state's well-entrenched gentry led the revolutionary movement, and at least in conventional narratives of the Revolution they faced mild opposition from other free Virginians. Holton makes a strong case for the influence of subaltern "freedom struggles" (p. xxi) on Virginia gentlemen's efforts to win independence from England, in part by broadening the story of the Revolution to include events too often given short shrift, and in part by altering the terms usually used by progressive historians of the Revolution. . . .

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