Reviews for Old Westmoreland: A History of Western Pennsylvania during the Revolution

The average rating for Old Westmoreland: A History of Western Pennsylvania during the Revolution based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-03-07 00:00:00 Sacha Cohen Great book, but lifts heavily from other authors Roscoe lifts especially very heavily from Jeptha Simms' slightly earlier work of the same title which was written in 1843. Roscoe even follows the same basic structure as Simms' book on the same subject and at some points literally copies it line for line. Overall, its more or less a redundant exercise to read this book if you've already read Simms' book. Roscoe doesn't really add very much.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-12-05 00:00:00 Ford Ruggieri Contemporary Trotskyists outside James little group regarded this as virtual madness, but the New Left and Black nationalists who recovered James from American obscurity some twenty years later recognized something of his accomplishments: his prescient use of Marx's 1844 Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts as a means to identify fundamental social alienation, on the one hand and his belief in autonomous Black revolutionary potential on the other. They were too late or perhaps too early, to accept the corollary: James' discovery of autonomous work-cultures whose members had instinctively developed their own patterns of resistance and mobilization, not in the interest of any socialist revolution but with their own immediate needs in mind. However limited this tendency might prove, it offered the hope of industrial democracy from the bottom up, out of the lives of ordinary people rather than the plan of experts. (204)