![]() ![]() Instead, under the influence, direct or indirect, of Marxist analysis, they went looking for a local ruling class against whom a local working class could have risen. But the academic professionals who took up the subject at the beginning of this century, priding themselves on a scientific objectivity, had difficulty finding enough evidence of British oppression to explain the extent of American resistance. ![]() The first American historians easily rose to the challenge by identifying the British and especially George III as tyrants and the Americans as oppressed. ![]() Even if the end result is the new tyranny of a Cromwell, a Bonaparte, or a Stalin, a revolution scarcely seems to deserve the name without the overthrow of an oppressive ruling class by some kind of underclass. Revolutions are supposed to be risings of the masses against the tyranny of their masters. The American Revolution has always posed a challenge to historians. ![]()
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