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xv, 384 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The eighteenth-century newspaper business -- Revolutionary newspaper reading tips -- The cursed Stamp Act. Sugar act -- Stamp act -- Stamp act repeal . Frugality and industry. Townshend acts -- Nonimportation and nonconsumption. The late horrid massacre. Arrival of the troops in Boston -- Boston massacre -- Gaspee affair -- Committees of correspondence. The detestable tea. Tea Act in America -- Boston Tea Party -- Rebellion. Coercive acts -- Powder alarm -- Suffolk resolves -- Massachusetts Provincial Congress -- First Continental Congress -- Raid on Fort Willilam and Mary. Bloody news. Battle of Lexington and Concord. Williamsburg Gunpowder incident -- Second Continental Congress -- Capture of Fort Ticonderoga -- Battle of Noddle's Island -- Battle of Bunker Hill -- George Washington takes command -- Battle of Great Bridge and Burning Norfolk -- Invasion of Canada -- Native Americans choosing sides -- The spirit of liberty -- Common sense and the American crisis -- Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge -- Battle of the Rice Boats -- Fortification of Dorchester Heights -- Battle of Sullivan's Island -- Declaration of Independence -- New York campaign -- Cut to pieces. Battles of Trenton and Princeton -- Siege of Fort Ticonderoga -- Battle of Oriskany -- Battles of Brandywine and Germantown -- Battles of Saratoga -- Women and children on the war front -- Good and faithful allies. Valley Forge winter encampment -- French-American alliance -- Battle of Monmouth -- Conquer or die. Revolutionary War in the West and George Rogers Clark -- Sullivan Expedition -- Battle of Flamborough Head and John Paul Jones -- Marks of heroism. Siege of Savannah -- Siege of Charleston -- Carolina backcountry militia actions -- Battle of Camden -- Battle of Kings Mountain -- Treason of Benedict Arnold and handing of John Andrâe -- Conquest and capture. Battle of Cowpens -- Race to the Dan -- Battle of Guilford Courthouse -- Battle of Hobkirk's Hill -- Siege of Ninety Six -- Battle of Eutaw Springs -- Yorktown Campaign -- Delivered with eloquence. Perils of peace -- British and Loyalist evacuations of America -- Resignation of George Washington as Commander in Chief -- Epilogue -- Revolutionary press impact -- The value of primary sources. |
| Summary |
Before the events of the American Revolution became the history and foundation of the United States, they were littered among the news of the day for those in colonial America. Reading local newspapers such as the Boston Gazette and Pennsylvania Journal, colonists received new information every week on the growing conflict with Great Britain. The American newspapers of the eighteenth century fanned the flames of rebellion, igniting the ideas of patriotism and liberty among ordinary colonists who had never before been so strongly united. This book presents a collection of primary sources detailing what it was like to experience a revolution as it happened. These essential propaganda tools motivated farmers and shopkeepers to take up arms against the most powerful empire in the world. Discover Patriot and Loyalist eyewitness accounts from newspapers printed on both sides of the Atlantic, and experience the news of the Revolution with the same immediacy and uncertainty as the colonists did. |
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Press coverage. (OCoLC)fst01198921
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources.
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Press coverage.
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American newspapers -- History -- 18th century.
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American newspapers. (OCoLC)fst00807293
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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American Revolution (United States : 1775-1783) (OCoLC)fst01351668 |
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1700-1799
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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| Added Author |
Andrlik, Todd.
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| ISBN |
9781402269677 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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1402269676 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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9781402282553 (hbk.) |
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1402282559 (hbk.) |
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