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The glorious cause : the American Revolution, 1763-1789 / Robert Middlekauff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Middlekauff, Robert, author.
- Series:
- Oxford history of the United States ; v. 3
- Oxford History of the United States ; v. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- United States.
- United States--History--Confederation, 1783-1789.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1349 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Revised and expanded edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- 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." "This new edition has been revised and expanded, with fresh coverage of topics such as mob reactions to British measures before the War, military medicine, women's role in the Revolution, American Indians, the different kinds of war fought by the Americans and the British, and the ratification of the Constitution. It 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 1780's.
- The Constitutional Convention.
- Ratification: an end and a beginning.
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliography and index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-974505-6
- OCLC:
- 727645646
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