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A new age now begins : a people's history of the American Revolution / Page Smith.
LIBRA - Rare E208 .S67 1976 Potok copy v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Page.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- United States.
- History.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Campaigns.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy volumes 1 & 2)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes (xi pages, 3 unnumbered pages,1899 pages, 10 unnumbered pages) : maps ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- People's history of the American Revolution
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; St. Louis ; San Francisco : McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1967]
- Contents:
- v. 1:
- Part I:
- A new world
- Who came?
- Legacy of liberty
- New England and the middle colonies
- The southern colonies
- Indians and settlers
- Common grievances and common dangers
- Mercantilism
- The delights of the homeland
- "What then is the American, this new man?"
- Part II:
- The Revenue Act
- James Otis and the beginnings of resistance
- The Stamp Act
- The riots
- The Stamp Act Congress
- America in rebellion
- Parliament's battle over repeal
- The Stamp Act in retrospect
- Part III:
- The British blunder again
- The case of the liberty
- The repeal of the Townshend Duties
- Redcoats in Boston
- The Battle of Golden Hill
- More trouble in Boston
- The Boston Massacre
- The aftermath of the massacre and the trial
- The Gaspee Affair
- The Boston Tea Party
- The Boston Port bill
- The Massachusetts Government Act and the Quebec Act
- Part IV:
- The Continental Congress: nursery of American statesmen
- Down to business
- England
- The lull before the storm
- Lexington
- Concord
- Boston besieged
- Bunker Hill
- Part V:
- The Second Continental Congress
- Washington makes an army
- Ticonderoga
- The invasion of Canada
- Arold's march
- Clinton attacks Charles Town
- Guerrilla warfare on the water
- Dorchester Heights
- Patriots and Tories
- Common sense
- Toward independence: the Virginia resolves
- The Declaration of Independence
- Part VI:
- Washington in New York
- The Battle of Long Island
- The evacuation of Brooklyn
- Kip's Bay
- Turnabout; Harlem Heights
- White Plains
- The struggle for Fort Washington
- Howe invades New Jersey
- Trenton
- Princeton
- The Continental Congress
- The states make constitutions
- England, 1776.
- v. 2:
- Part VII:
- Howe tries the Jerseys again
- Burgoyne's invasion
- Forts Stanwix and Oriskany
- Bennington
- Saratoga
- Brandywine
- The Paoli Massacre and Germantown
- Foreign volunteers
- Forts Mifflin and Mercer
- The army goes into winter quarters, 1777-78
- The Conway Cabal
- The British in Philadelphia
- The French Alliance
- Part VIII:
- Monmouth
- The Battle of Rhode Island
- Winter quarters, 1778-79
- Meanwhile congress ...
- Border warfare: the Wyoming valley
- Sullivan's expedition
- Border warfare: New York
- George Rogers Clark
- The capture of Vincennes
- The southern frontier
- The Sandusky expedition
- The end of the border war
- The war on the high seas
- Naval "militia" and privateers
- John Paul Jones
- The continuing war at sea
- Part IX:
- From Savannah to Brier Creek
- Prevost threatens Charles Town
- Failure at Savannah
- Stony Point and Paulus Hook
- Fort Wilson
- Parliament takes stock
- The surrender of Charles Town
- From the Waxhaw Massacre to Ramsour's Mill
- Camden
- King's Mountain
- Greene takes command
- Cowpens
- Greene runs
- Guilford court house
- Hobkirks Hill
- Greene turns south
- Part X:
- Morristown: 1779-80
- Springfield and after
- Parliament
- General Arnold and the British
- Treason
- The mutiny of the Pennsylvania line
- Lafayette in Virginia
- Congress
- The episode at Green Spring Farm
- To Virginia
- The Battle of the Capes
- The seige of Yorktown
- Parliament reacts
- Peace negotiations
- The aftermath of Yorktown
- Congress: a rope of sand
- The army disbands
- Blacks in the revolution
- Women in the revolution
- Novus Ordo Seclorum.
- Notes:
- "'A New Age Now Begins' is the most comprehensive narrative of the American Revolution written specifically for the general public."--Dustjacket.
- "Book design by Stanley Drate."
- Cover and half title illustrated with Great Seal of the United States, reverse side.
- Includes bibliographical references (volume 2, pages 1833-1838) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy (volumes 1 & 2) presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok
- Potok Collection copy: dustjackets retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1976".
- ISBN:
- 00705990974
- OCLC:
- 1257071
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