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But these gentlemen were not concerned with property alone. They also sought personal prestige and cultural preeminence. Cutterham describes how, painting the egalitarian freedom of the republic's \"lower sort\" as dangerous licentiousness, they constructed a vision of proper social order around their own fantasies of power and justice. In pamphlets, speeches, letters, and poetry, they argued that the survival of the republican experiment in the United States depended on the leadership of worthy gentlemen and the obedience of everyone else.  Lively and elegantly written, Gentlemen Revolutionaries demonstrates how these elites, far from giving up their attachment to gentility and privilege, recast the new republic in their own image.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49730451800337,"sku":"NGR9780691172668","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0691172668.jpg?v=1751231303"},{"product_id":"gentlemen-revolutionaries-book-tom-cutterham-9780691210100","title":"Gentlemen Revolutionaries","description":"In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen—the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite—worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries shows how their struggles over status, hierarchy, property, and control shaped the ideologies and institutions of the fledgling nation.  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Reframing the American Revolution as a British civil war, Empire Ablaze offers a fresh account of the United States' birth and the origins of radical politics in Britain, finding insights for the revolutionary struggles of our own crisis-ridden times.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53237249212689,"sku":"NGR9781836741459","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781836741459.jpg?v=1773185598"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-tom-cutterham.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}