Brendan McConville
{{Short description|American author and professor of history}}
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Brendan McConville (born 1965) is an American author and professor of history at Boston University. His books on American history include The King's Three Faces (University of Carolina Press, 2006) and The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Longman, 2008).
Career
McConville was educated at Brown University and Reed College,{{cite web|title=Thomas J. Watson Fellowship|url=http://www.reed.edu/resources/facts/watsonawards.html|website=reed.edu|publisher=Reed College|accessdate=13 March 2015}} Portland. His research focuses on the intersection of politics and social developments in Early America, and his interests include colonial history and the English Reformation.
Reception
After the release of These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace, Michael Bellesiles wrote that "Brendan McConville has produced an outstanding work of social history. A few scholars have looked briefly at New Jersey's 1740s land riots, but McConville is the first to place these events in their deep historical context."{{cite journal|last1=Bellesiles|first1=Michael|title=These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey by Brendan McConville (review)|journal=Social History|date=2001|volume=26|issue=1|pages=110–112|jstor=4286739}}
In a review of The King's Three Faces for Itinerario, Charles W. A. Prior writes that McConville "brings a great deal of fresh material to light."{{cite journal|last1=Prior|first1=Charles W. A.|title=Review: Brendan McConville, The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688–1776|journal=Itinerario|date=March 2007|volume=31|issue=1|pages=191–193|url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6549752|accessdate=August 23, 2014|doi=10.1017/S0165115300000450|url-access=subscription}} In Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life, Benjamin Irvin called the book "a brilliant, bounding study of Anglo-American political culture."{{cite journal|last1=Irvin|first1=Benjamin H.|title=Smashing Idols|journal=Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life|date=July 2008|volume=8|issue=4|url=http://www.common-place.org/vol-08/no-04/reviews/irvin.shtml|accessdate=August 23, 2014}} The book was also reviewed in The New England Quarterly, The Journal of Military History and The American Historical Review.{{cite journal|last1=Carter|first1=Allison|title=The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776 by Brendan McConville (review)|journal=The New England Quarterly|date=September 2007|volume=80|issue=3|pages=521–523|doi=10.1162/tneq.2007.80.3.521|jstor=20474567}}{{cite journal|last1=Webb|first1=Stephen S.|title=The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688–1776 (review)|journal=The Journal of Military History|date=October 2007|volume=71|issue=4|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jmh/summary/v071/71.4webb.html|accessdate=August 23, 2014}}{{cite journal|last1=Breen|first1=T. H.|title=Brendan McConville. The King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776 (review)|journal=The American Historical Review|date=2007|volume=112|issue=3|pages=840–841|doi=10.1086/ahr.112.3.840}}
Publications
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- The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (2008)
- The King's Three Faces (2006)
- These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace (1999)
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060920162041/http://www.bu.edu/history/mcconville.pdf Boston University webpage]
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Category:Brown University alumni
Category:Boston University faculty
Category:Historians of the American Revolution
Category:21st-century American historians
Category:21st-century American male writers
Category:American male non-fiction writers
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