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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Middlekauff, Robert
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1982.
Series:Oxford history of the United States ; v. 2.
Subjects:
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States > History > Confederation, 1783-1789.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Sustaining truth
  • Obstructed giant
  • Children of the twice-born
  • Beginnings: from the top down
  • Stamp Act crisis
  • Response
  • Selden's penny
  • Chance and Charles Townsend
  • Boston takes the lead
  • "Bastards of England"
  • Drift
  • Resolution
  • War
  • "Half a war"
  • Independence
  • War of Posts
  • War of Maneuver
  • Revolution
  • War in the South
  • "Fugitive War"
  • Inside the campaigns
  • Outside the campaigns
  • Yorktown
  • Constitutional movement
  • Children of the twice-born in the 1780s
  • Constitutional Convention
  • Ratification: an end and a beginning
  • Epilogue: Enduring truth.