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In reply to the discussion: What are You reading? [View all]tishaLA
(14,351 posts)78. I was primarily referring to all those historians because
they helped establish what has been termed "the republican synthesis," a linguistic approach to how we understand the establishment of the early republic. Since them, there have been many addenda to their thesis, including those that focused on gender, race, and class issues (just as there have been addenda to virtually every original strain of thought). None of this diminishes the importance of their contribution to the understanding of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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