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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816294803321

Autore

Middlekauff Robert

Titolo

The glorious cause : the American Revolution, 1763-1789 / / Robert Middlekauff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, United Kingdom ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

0-19-974505-6

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1349 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Oxford History of the United States ; ; v. 3

Disciplina

973.3

Soggetti

United States History Revolution, 1775-1783

United States History Confederation, 1783-1789

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 1780's. -- The Constitutional Convention. -- Ratification: an end and a beginning. -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

"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." "This new edition has been revised and expanded, with fresh coverage of topics such as mob reactions to British measures before the War, military medicine, women's role in the Revolution, American Indians, the different kinds of war fought by the Americans and the British, and the ratification of the Constitution. It includes a new epilogue and an updated bibliography."