Peter C Messer

Biographic Data

ID1529204
NAMEPeter C Messer
GIVEN NAMESPeter C
FAMILY NAMEMesser
SIGNATUREMESSER P C
AFFILIATIONSMississippi State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution

    Open AccessPeter C MesserARTICLEJournal of American History2024

    Journal Article The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution: Diversity and Empire in the British Atlantic, 1688–1783 Get access The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution: Diversity and Empire in the British Atlantic, 1688–1783. By Samuel K Fisher. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. xvi, 319 pp. $45.99.) Peter C Messer Peter C Messer Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi Search for other wo…

  • The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution

    Open AccessPeter C Messer, Peter MesserARTICLEJournal of American History2022

    In The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution, D. H. Robinson argues, more provocatively than persuasively, that the Revolution arose from the colonists' view of the British Empire as the universal monarchy key to preserving the balance of power in Europe and the rights of Europeans. Over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Britons and colonists developed a continentalist view of geopolitics that portrayed Br…

  • Thomas Hutchinson and Vernacular Constitutionalism

    Peter C MesserARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2021

    Volumes 2 and 3 of The Correspondence of Thomas Hutchinson offer a glimpse into the mind of British America's best known and perhaps most influential loyalist. They reveal his interpretations of the extent of Parliamentary authority and the scope of colonial liberties; his critical views of his patriot opponents; his professional aspirations for himself and his family; and his interpretation of what we recognize as the pivotal moments in the esca…

  • Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South

    Open AccessPeter C MesserARTICLEJournal of American History2019

    Daniel S. Dupre's Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South tells the story of the gradual transformation of one part of North America from native ground to middle ground to southern ground. The book begins with the Hernando de Soto entrada (1539–1543) and follows the subsequent interactions of European, Euro-American, Indian, and African American peoples through Indian removal in 1836. Dupre leans heavily on Richard White's idea of a mid…

  • A scene of Villainy acted by a dirty Banditti, as must astonish the Public”

    Peter C Messer, Peter MesserARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2017

    In the years before the American Revolution, “A scene of Villainy acted by a dirty Banditti” argues, Boston's Sons of Liberty built their claim to govern their community, at the expense of both Loyalists and laboring Bostonians, by transforming a street fight between soldiers and civilians into the Boston Massacre

  • A Most Insulting Violation The Burning of the HMS Gaspee and the Delaying of the American Revolution

    Peter C MesserARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2015

    “A Most Insulting Violation,” argues that the successful resolution of the controversy surrounding the burning of the HMS Gaspee (1772) highlights how North American colonists’ decisions about violently resisting British imperial authority rested on a vernacular vision of empire that prioritized lived experience over Whig ideology and economic interest

  • Michael SCOTT VAN Wagenen. Remembering the Forgotten War

    Peter C MesserARTICLEThe American Historical Review2013

    Michael Scott Van Wagenen's book explores contrasting memories on either side of the Rio Grande of the U.S.-Mexican War. Van Wagenen argues that although both the United States and Mexico have used the war to further nationalist ends, each has at times understood it as a national embarrassment best forgotten. In both countries social, political, and economic concerns have shaped the official memory of the war. The height of nationalist memory in …

  • Founding Fictions

    Peter C MesserARTICLEJournal of American History2011

    Journal Article Founding Fictions Get access Founding Fictions. By Jennifer R. Mercieca. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010. xiv, 274 pp. $53.00,ISBN978-0-8173-1690-7.) Peter C. Messer Peter C. Messer Mississippi State University Mississippi State, Mississippi [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 98, Issue 3, December 2011, Pages 824–82…

  • James Madison

    Open AccessPeter C MesserARTICLEPresidential Studies Quarterly2010

  • Whom Can We Trust Now

    Peter C MesserARTICLEJournal of American History2007

    “Whom Can We Trust Now?” argues that republican principles produced a dramatic reconsideration of the meaning of treason in American law and culture. Brian F. Carso Jr. contends that in a republic, the idea of treason creates a quandary: How can a government protect itself from internal subversion while protecting its citizens' right to dissent? The answer, it seems, is that it cannot, or, that between the Revolution and the end of the Civil War,…

  • From a Revolutionary History to a History of Revolution

    Peter C MesserARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2002

    From 1785 1815 David Ramsay, a Maryland-born, Princeton-educated, Philadelphia-trained physician living in South Carolina, was one of the most prolific chroniclers of the American Revolution. He wrote three histories of the American struggle for independence and, at the time of his death, had almost completed a fourth. The South Carolinian's ambition in writing was craft a new identity for the people of the United States: one that was rooted in a…