Summary of Greg Grandin's The End of the Myth

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#1 The American Revolution is a permanent revolution, a constant eviction of all elements foreign to the American essence. Anything that stands in the way of this invention is not American.

#2 The drive west was a period of relative theological calm in the first few decades of the 1700s. But then came the Great Awakening in the 1730s, and hectoring jeremiads once again began to interpret global events as the latest stage in the struggle between popery and true religion.

#3 The Seven Years’ War, which was fought between 1756 and 1763, expanded horizons and spread both Franklin’s kind of optimism and a darker impulse. It was a long, low-intensity, high-mortality slog through pathless woods.

#4 During the war, the British took from France an enormous swath of forestland that would become northern Ohio. But they soon lost the peace. With France defeated, Spain became Britain’s last imperial competitor.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822563308

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Insights on Greg Grandin's The End of the Myth

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The American Revolution is a permanent revolution, a constant eviction of all elements foreign to the American essence. Anything that stands in the way of this invention is not American.

#2

The drive west was a period of relative theological calm in the first few decades of the 1700s. But then came the Great Awakening in the 1730s, and hectoring jeremiads once again began to interpret global events as the latest stage in the struggle between popery and true religion.

#3

The Seven Years’ War, which was fought between 1756 and 1763, expanded horizons and spread both Franklin’s kind of optimism and a darker impulse. It was a long, low-intensity, high-mortality slog through pathless woods.

#4

During the war, the British took from France an enormous swath of forestland that would become northern Ohio. But they soon lost the peace. With France defeated, Spain became Britain’s last imperial competitor.

#5

In 1763, the British government passed a decree that essentially revoked the founding charters of colonies and concessions that the Crown had given to private companies over the years, including hundreds of thousands of acres ceded to the Ohio Company.

#6

The British partition of North America was unworkable. The proclamation itself was incoherent, offering land to white veterans of the Seven Years’ War and protection of their land to Native Americans. The Crown stalled on the first and couldn’t deliver on the second.

#7

The American Revolution would fall back behind the squatters and the squires, who were interested in western speculation and staking out huge lots well west of the partition line.

#8

The Declaration of Independence in 1776 was the colonists’ response to the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which attempted to partition North America into British colonies. The colonists claimed that their right to colonize was rooted in natural law, and that George