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

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Middlekauff, Robert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2007.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Oxford history of the United States.
Temas:
Confederation of the United States (1783-1789)
1775-1789
History.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States > History > Confederation, 1783-1789.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1775-1783 (Révolution)
États-Unis > Histoire > 1783-1789 (Confédération)
United States
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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