1775 a good year for revolution

"Iconoclastic historian and bestselling author Kevin Phillips punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. He suggests that the great events and confrontations of 1775--Congress's belligerent economic ultimatums to Britain, New England's 'rage militaire,' the exodu...

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Main Author: Phillips, Kevin, 1940-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Viking, c2012.
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245 1 0 |a 1775 :  |b a good year for revolution /  |c Kevin Phillips. 
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246 3 0 |a Good year for revolution 
260 |a New York, N.Y. :  |b Viking,  |c c2012. 
300 |a xxvi, 628 p. [16] p. of plates :  |b ill., maps ;  |c 25 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [551]-604) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction -- The Revolution : provocations, motivations, and alignments -- 1775 : the battlegrounds -- Consequences and ramifications. 
520 |a "Iconoclastic historian and bestselling author Kevin Phillips punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. He suggests that the great events and confrontations of 1775--Congress's belligerent economic ultimatums to Britain, New England's 'rage militaire,' the exodus of British troops and expulsion of royal governors up and down the seaboard, and the new provincial congresses and hundreds of local committees that quickly reconstituted local authority in Patriot hands---achieved a sweeping Patriot control of territory and local government that Britain was never able to overcome."--  |c Publisher's description 
651 0 |a United States  |x History  |y Revolution, 1775-1783. 
651 0 |a United States  |x Politics and government  |y 1775-1783. 
650 0 |a Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775. 
650 0 |a Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775. 
651 0 |a Boston (Mass.)  |x History  |y Siege, 1775-1776. 
651 0 |a Fort Ticonderoga (N.Y.)  |x Capture, 1775. 
610 1 0 |a United States.  |b Continental Congress. 
600 1 0 |a Paine, Thomas,  |d 1737-1809.  |t Common sense. 
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