The Glorious Cause : the American Revolution, 1763-1789.

Author/creator Middlekauff, Robert
Format Electronic
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoOxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2007.
Description1 online resource (1,349 pages).
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
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SeriesOxford History of the United States ; v. v. 3
Oxford history of the United States. ^A220566
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Contents; Maps; Editor's Introduction; Prologue: The Sustaining Truths; 1. The Obstructed Giant; 2. The Children of the Twice-Born; 3. Beginnings: From the Top Down; 4. The Stamp Act Crisis; 5. Response; 6. Selden's Penny; 7. Chance and Charles Townshend; 8. Boston Takes the Lead; 9. The "Bastards of England, "; 10. Drift; 11. Resolution; 12. War; 13. "Half a War, "; 14. Independence; 15. The War of Posts; 16. The War of Maneuver; 17. The Revolution Becomes a European War; 18. The War in the South; 19. The "Fugitive War,"
Contents 20. Inside the Campaigns; 21. Outside the Campaigns; 22. Yorktown and Paris; 23. The Constitutional Movement; 24. The Children of the Twice-Born in the 1780s; 25. The Constitutional Convention; 26. Ratification: An End and a Beginning; Epilogue; Abbreviated Titles; Bibliographical Note; Index; Footnotes.
Abstract The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. Beginning with the French and Indian War and continuing to the election of George Washington as first president, Robert Middlekauff offers a panoramic history of the conflict between England and America, highlighting the drama and anguish of the colonial struggle for independence. Combining the political and the personal, he provides a compelling accoun.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Middlekauff, Robert. Glorious Cause : The American Revolution, 1763-1789. Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, ©2007 9780195315882
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9780199745050
ISBN0199745056

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