Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution
- ISBN-10
- 0809058340
- ISBN-13
- 9780809058341
- Series
- Independence
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 487
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-06-10
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Thomas P. Slaughter
Description
The author of Bloody Dawn presents a new interpretation of the American colonial fight for independence that chronicles and clarifies the 150-year effort of colonists to escape imperial rule through organized, increasingly intense uprisings. 15,000 first printing.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2020-07-14
- 284 pages
- Paperback
- Bryson Taylor Publishing
Similar books
-
Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution
By Thomas P. Slaughter" As the distinguished historian Thomas P. Slaughter shows in this landmark book, the long process of revolution reached back more than a century before 1776, and it touched on virtually every aspect of the colonies' laws, commerce, social ...
-
Spain and the Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift
By Thomas E. ChavezBased on primary research in the archives of Spain, this book is about United States history at its very inception, placing the war in a broader international context.
-
The Struggle for Power in Colonial America, 1607–1776
By William R. NesterThe Memoirs of Lt. Henry Timberlake: The Story of Soldier, Adventurer, ... Kopperman, Paul E. Braddock at the Monongahela (Pittsburg: University of ...
-
The American Revolution Reborn
By Patrick Spero, Michael ZuckermanGarry Wills, Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978), which also includes ... Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution (New York: Hill and Wang, 2014), 178–82.
-
Historical Dictionary of the American Revolution
By Terry M. MaysBENNETT'S ISLAND, RAIDS ON. On 18 February 1777, Patriot militia attacked a Loyalist militia outpost on Bennett's Island, New Jersey. In April of 1777, a British unit on Bennett's Island skirmished with Patriot militia, killing one of ...
-
The American Revolution Reborn
By Patrick Spero, Michael ZuckermanCohen, Yankee Sailors, 27–29, 180, 224; Burrows, Forgotten Patriots, 80. 36. Christopher Prince, The Autobiography of a Yankee Mariner: Christopher Prince and the American Revolution, ed. Michael J. Crawford (Washington, D.C.: Brassey's ...
-
The Miracle of American Independence: Twenty Ways Things Could Have Turned Out Differently
By Jonathan R. DullDaniel K. Richter, Before the Revolution: America's Ancient Pasts (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, ... Thomas P. Slaughter, Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution (New York: Hill and Wang, ...
-
Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington,
By Scott W. BergCharles Beatty, and Clement Woodward. Two other men in the room. Notley Young and Daniel Carroll of Duddington, were far and away the wealthiest in the proposed city. Between them they owned nearly half of the land under discussion.
-
Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It
By John FerlingWashington, George: Philander Chase, et al., eds., The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series ... 2010); Thomas P. Slaughter, Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution (New York, 2013); Gordon S. Wood, ...
-
Taking Sides in Revolutionary New Jersey: Caught in the Crossfire
By Maxine N. LurieOn Bergen see Todd W. Braisted, Bergen County Voices om the American Revolution: Soldiers and Residents in eir Own Words (Charleston, SC: History Press, ); on Monmouth see Michael Adelberg, ...