The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States) - Hardcover

Middlekauff, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195029216 ISBN 13: 9780195029215

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1982

Synopsis

Recounts the events leading up to the Revolution and discusses the major leaders, campaigns, and battles of the war

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Review:

Many histories of the American Revolution are written as if on stained glass, with George Washington's forces of good battling King George III's redcoat devils. The actual events were, of course, far more complex than that, and Robert Middlekauff undertakes the difficult task of separating the real from the mythic with great success. From him we learn that England taxed the colonials so heavily in an attempt to retire the massive debt incurred in defending those very colonials against other powers, notably France; that the writing of the Constitution was delayed for two years while states argued among themselves in the face of massive military losses; and that demographic shifts during the Revolution did much to increase America's ethic diversity at an early and decisive time. Vividly told, this is a superb account of the nation's founding.

About the Author:

Robert Middlekauff is Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0195029216
• ISBN 13: 9780195029215
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 720