The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 / Edition 1

The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 / Edition 1

by Robert Middlekauff
ISBN-10:
019531588X
ISBN-13:
9780195315882
Pub. Date:
03/09/2007
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
019531588X
ISBN-13:
9780195315882
Pub. Date:
03/09/2007
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 / Edition 1

The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 / Edition 1

by Robert Middlekauff
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Overview

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.

Beginning with the French and Indian War and continuing to the election of George Washington as first president, Robert Middlekauff offers a panoramic history of the conflict between England and America, highlighting the drama and anguish of the colonial struggle for independence. Combining the political and the personal, he provides a compelling account of the key events that precipitated the war, from the Stamp Act to the Tea Act, tracing the gradual gathering of American resistance that culminated in the Boston Tea Party and "the shot heard 'round the world." The heart of the book features a vivid description of the eight-year-long war, with gripping accounts of battles and campaigns, ranging from Bunker Hill and Washington's crossing of the Delaware to the brilliant victory at Hannah's Cowpens and the final triumph at Yorktown, paying particular attention to what made men fight in these bloody encounters. The book concludes with an insightful look at the making of the Constitution in the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 and the struggle over ratification. Through it all, Middlekauff gives the reader a vivid sense of how the colonists saw these events and the importance they gave to them. Common soldiers and great generals, Sons of Liberty and African slaves, town committee-men and representatives in congress—all receive their due. And there are particularly insightful portraits of such figures as Sam and John Adams, James Otis, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and many others.

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. The book also has a new epilogue and an updated bibliography.

The cause for which the colonists fought, liberty and independence, was glorious indeed. Here is an equally glorious narrative of an event that changed the world, capturing the profound and passionate struggle to found a free nation.

The Oxford History of the United States
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. The Atlantic Monthly has praised it as "the most distinguished series in American historical scholarship," a series that "synthesizes a generation's worth of historical inquiry and knowledge into one literally state-of-the-art book." Conceived under the general editorship of C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter, and now under the editorship of David M. Kennedy, this renowned series blends social, political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, and military history into coherent and vividly written narrative.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195315882
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 03/09/2007
Series: Oxford History of the United States Series
Edition description: Revised Edition
Pages: 752
Sales rank: 104,214
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 10.90(h) x 1.91(d)

About the Author

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

Editor's Introductionxv
Prologue: The Sustaining Truths3
1.The Obstructed Giant7
2.The Children of the Twice-Born26
3.Beginnings: From the Top Down49
4.The Stamp Act Crisis70
5.Response94
6.Selden's Penny118
7.Chance and Charles Townshend136
8.Boston Takes the Lead153
9.The "Bastards of England,"174
10.Drift208
11.Resolution221
12.War250
13."Half a War"274
14.Independece312
15.The War of Posts333
16.The War of Maneuver363
17.The Revolution Becomes a European War396
18.The War in the South434
19.The "Fugitive War"458
20.Inside the Campaigns496
21.Outside the Campaigns535
22.Yorktown and Paris559
23.The Constitutional Movement582
24.The Children of the Twice-Born in the 1780s602
25.The Constitutional Convention622
26.Ratification: An End and a Beginning649
Epilogue: The Enduring Truths665
Abbreviated Titles666
Bibliographical Note669
Index675
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