"The Minutemen and Their World" by Robert A. Gross. A brief summary and synopsis.
Date Submitted: 08/12/2004 09:30:46
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 2 pages (632 words)
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 2 pages (632 words)
In the book, "The Minutemen and Their World" by Robert A. Gross, a closer look is taken at the American Revolution by examining the lives of the people that live in Concord, Massachusetts. By researching and interpreting diaries, court records, colony records, genealogies, and private papers Gross begins to describe a society before, during, and after the American Revolution. He furthermore succeeds in creating a well-written historical text that is easy to read, interpret, and …
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…means to represent Concord as a model of a normal colonial town during the Revolution. The characters in the book give the reader a sense of why the people in this town chose to revolt. By representing the people of Concord and their reasons to fight, Gross effectively represents all of the colonies who fought in the Revolution; As Gross puts it in his book, "The Concord fight was an incident in a wider war."
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