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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Middlekauff, Robert.

Series:

Oxford history of the United States ; v. 2.

The Oxford history of the United States ; [v. 3]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

United States.

History.

United States--History--Confederation, 1783-1789.

Physical Description:

xiv, 736 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Edition:

Revised and expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

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.

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 Constituional Convention.

Ratification: an end and a beginning.

Epilogue.

Notes:

Previous ed. published as v. 2 in series: The Oxford history of the United States.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0195162471

OCLC:

55960833