Hah! Yeah, I had grown up in the ashes of the USSR rather than in the US, so it was always weird to call the American Revolution a "Revolution" in the same sense. It was, and I don't dispute the title, but it was definitely a different sort of uprising.
On that topic, I've been enjoying the Revolutions podcast and learning about the events in, ex., South America and how the American War of Independence influenced that.
Sort off-topic for Hamilton, I guess. I think that the musical tries to sell us on the idea that this was fought for freedom, rather than a slightly different distribution of elite power, and having George III show up briefly kind of helps that.
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Date: 2020-07-13 11:05 pm (UTC)On that topic, I've been enjoying the Revolutions podcast and learning about the events in, ex., South America and how the American War of Independence influenced that.
Sort off-topic for Hamilton, I guess. I think that the musical tries to sell us on the idea that this was fought for freedom, rather than a slightly different distribution of elite power, and having George III show up briefly kind of helps that.