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The American Revolution : a history
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- Creator
- Gordon S. Wood
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Modern Library paperback edition
- New York, NY : Modern Library, 2003
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 190 pages : maps ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780812970418, 0812970411
- OCLC
- ocm54396215
- Originally published: 2002.
- Includes "bibliographic note" (pages [167]-176) and index.
- I. Origins. The growth and movement of population ; Economic expansion ; Reform of the British Empire. -- II. American resistance. British reaction ; Deepening the crisis ; The imperial debate. -- III. Revolution. The approach to independence ; The declaration of independence ; An asylum for liberty. -- IV. Constitution-making and war. The state constitutions ; The Articles of Confederation ; The War for Independence. -- V. Republicanism. The need for virtue ; The rising glory of America ; Equality ; A new world order. -- VI. Republican society. Effects of the war ; Effects of the revolution ; Republican reforms ; Antislavery ; Republican religion. -- VII. The Federal Constitution. The critical period ; The Philadelphia Convention ; The Federalist -- anti-Federalist debate