Independence
The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution
New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xix, 487 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Presents a new interpretation of the American fight for independence that chronicles and clarifies the one hundred fifty-year effort of colonists to escape imperial rule through organized, increasingly intense uprisings.
Contents:
Foundations. Borderlands ; Commerce ; Wars ; Battlefields ; Global empires ; Hearts and minds -- Fits and stops. The spirit of 1763 ; 1763 ; Taxes ; Stamps ; Resistance ; Massacre -- Independence. Parties ; Intolerable events ; Continental Congress ; Revolution.
Subjects:
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes.
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes.
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
ISBN:
9780809058341 (hbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY War American Rev Sla | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY War American Rev Sla | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY War American Rev Sla | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-461) and index.