03104nam 2200565 450 991081629480332120231130143451.00-19-974505-6(CKB)2670000000084785(EBL)472327(OCoLC)727645646(SSID)ssj0000559135(PQKBManifestationID)12215507(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000559135(PQKBWorkID)10566954(PQKB)11786710(MiAaPQ)EBC472327(EXLCZ)99267000000008478520170105h20072007 uy 0engurbn#---a||||txtccrThe glorious cause the American Revolution, 1763-1789 /Robert MiddlekauffSecond edition.Revised and expanded edition.Oxford, United Kingdom ;New York, New York :Oxford University Press,2007.©20071 online resource (1349 pages) illustrations, mapsOxford History of the United States ;v. 3Description based upon print version of record.0-19-531588-X Includes bibliography and index.Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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."Oxford history of the United States ;v. 3United StatesHistoryRevolution, 1775-1783United StatesHistoryConfederation, 1783-1789973.3Middlekauff Robert891032MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQUCWBOOK9910816294803321The glorious cause4060414UNINA