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Independence : the tangled roots of the American Revolution / Thomas P. Slaughter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slaughter, Thomas P. (Thomas Paul)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes.
- United States.
- History.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 487 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Tangled roots of the American Revolution
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
- Summary:
- Presents a new interpretation of the American fight for independence that chronicles and clarifies the one hundred fifty-year effort of colonists to escape imperial rule through organized, increasingly intense uprisings.
- Contents:
- Foundations. Borderlands ; Commerce ; Wars ; Battlefields ; Global empires ; Hearts and minds
- Fits and stops. The spirit of 1763 ; 1763 ; Taxes ; Stamps ; Resistance ; Massacre
- Independence. Parties ; Intolerable events ; Continental Congress ; Revolution.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-461) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780809058341
- 0809058340
- OCLC:
- 862575064
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