Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 689-705) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The glorious cause

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

86107087

Responsibility statement

Robert Middlekauff

Series statement

The Oxford history of the United States ;

Sub title

the American Revolution, 1763-1789

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 Constitutional Convention -- Ratification : an end and a beginning -- Epilogue

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American Revolution, 1763-1789

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