The glorious cause the American Revolution, 1763-1789
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Edition: | Rev. and expanded ed. |
| Series: | The Oxford history of the United States
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The sustaining truths.
- The obstructed giant.
- The children of the twice-born.
- Beginnings: from the top down.
- The Stamp Act crisis.
- Response.
- Selden's penny.
- Chance and Charles Townshend.
- Boston takes the lead.
- The "bastards of England".
- Drift.
- Resolution.
- War.
- "Half a war".
- Independence.
- The war of posts.
- The war of maneuver.
- The Revolution becomes a European War.
- The war in the South.
- The "fugitive war".
- Inside the campaigns.
- Outside the campaigns.
- Yorktown and Paris.
- The Constitutional movement.
- The children of the twice-born in the 1780s.
- The Constituional Convention.
- Ratification: an end and a beginning.
- Epilogue.
