The glorious cause : the American Revolution, 1763-1789 / Robert Middlekauff.
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. Includes a new epilogue and an updated bibliography.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780195315882
- ISBN: 019531588X
- ISBN: 0195162471
- ISBN: 9780195162479
- Physical Description: xiv, 736 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Edition: revised and expanded edition
- Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Previous ed. published as v. 2 in series: The Oxford history of the United States.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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.
- Target Audience Note:
- 1340L Lexile
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| Jacksonville Main Library | 973.3 MID (Text) | 36015000693552 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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