The Glorious Cause
by Bradbury, Thomas N.; Karney, Benjamin R.Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2019-07-01
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary
This outstanding narrative history, the first volume to appear in the Oxford History of the United States, offers an intimate view of the development of the Revolutionary War, the battle between the colonies and the motherland, and the establishment of the American republic. Beginning with theTreaty of Paris in 1763 and continuing to the election of George Washington as the first president, Robert Middlekauff charts the growing conflict between England and America and portrays the drama and anguish of the colonies' struggle for independence.
Author Biography
Robert Middlekauff is Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. The winner of a Bancroft Prize for The Mathers, he was Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University and also served as Director of the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| Editor's Introduction | p. xv |
| Prologue The Sustaining Truths | p. 3 |
| The Obstructed Giant | p. 7 |
| The Children of the Twice-Born | p. 26 |
| Beginnings from the Top Down | p. 49 |
| The Stamp Act Crisis | p. 70 |
| Response | p. 94 |
| Selden's Penny | p. 118 |
| Chance and Charles Townshend | p. 136 |
| Boston Takes the Lead | p. 153 |
| The """"Bastards of England"""" | p. 174 |
| Drift | p. 208 |
| Resolution | p. 221 |
| War | p. 250 |
| """"Half a War"""" | p. 274 |
| Independence | p. 312 |
| The War of Posts | p. 333 |
| The War of Maneuver | p. 363 |
| The Revolution Becomes a European War | p. 396 |
| The War in the South | p. 434 |
| The """"Fugitive War"""" | p. 458 |
| Inside the Campaigns | p. 496 |
| Outside the Campaigns | p. 535 |
| Yorktown and Paris | p. 559 |
| The Constitutional Movement | p. 582 |
| The Children of the Twice-Born in the 1780s | p. 602 |
| The Constitutional Convention | p. 622 |
| Ratification: an End and a Beginning | p. 649 |
| Epilogue: The Enduring Truths | p. 665 |
| Abbreviated Titles | p. 666 |
| Bibliographical Note | p. 669 |
| Index | p. 675 |
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