Winner of the Bancroft Prize
The Minutemen and Their World, first published in 1976, is reissued
now in a revised and expanded edition with a new preface and afterword
by the author.
On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge
in Concord, Massachusetts. The "shot heard round the world" catapulted
this sleepy New England town into the midst of revolutionary fervor, and
Concord went on to become the intellectual capital of the new republic.
The town--future home to Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne--soon came to
symbolize devotion to liberty, intellectual freedom, and the stubborn
integrity of rural life.
In The Minutemen and Their World, Robert A. Gross has written a
remarkably subtle and detailed reconstruction of the lives and community
of this special place, and a compelling interpretation of the American
Revolution as a social movement.