The common cause : creating race and nation in the American Revolution /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Parkinson, Robert G. (Author)
Corporate Author:	Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture (sponsoring body.)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Series:	UNC Press law publications. World constitutions illustrated. Civil rights and social justice.
Subjects:	Racism > United States > History > 18th century. United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Propaganda. United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Social aspects. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

"A work of difficulty": communication networks, newspapers, and the common cause
Interlude: the "shot heard 'round the world" revisited
"Britain has found means to unite us": 1775
Merciless savages, domestic insurrectionists, and foreign mercenaries: independence
"By the American Revolution you are now free": sticking together in trying times
"It is the cause of heaven against hell": to the Carlisle Commission, 1777-1778
Interlude: Franklin and Lafayette's "Little book"
"A striking picture of barbarity": Wyoming to the disaster at Savannah, 1778-1779
"This class of Britain's heroes": From the fall of Charleston to Yorktown
"The substance is truth": after Yorktown, 1782-1783
"New provocations": The political and cultural consequences of revolutionary war stories.