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Author Phillips, Kevin, 1940-

Title 1775 : a good year for revolution / Kevin Phillips.

Imprint New York : Viking, ©2012.

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 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  973.3 P544s 2012    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xxvi, 628 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-604) and index.
Contents The spirit of 1775 -- The Revolution: Provocations, Motivations, and Alignments. Liberty's vanguard ; Religion, ethnicity, and revolutionary loyalty ; A revolution for economic self-determination ; Urban radicalism and the tide of revolution ; Challenge from the backcountry ; The ideologies of revolution. -- 1775: The Battlegrounds. Fortress New England? ; Declaring economic war ; Five roads to Canada ; The global munitions struggle, 1774-1776 ; The supply war at sea ; The first British southern strategy, 1775-1776 ; Is Falmouth burning? ; Red, white, and black ; Divided national opinion and Britain's need to hire mercenaries ; The Chesapeake: America's vulnerable estuary ; The American Revolution as a civil war ; The Declaration of Independence : a stitch in time? -- Consequences and Ramifications. The Battle of Boston: a great American victory ; Canada: defeat or victory? ; Lord Dunmore's second war ; Whaleboats, row galleys, schooners, and submarines: the small-ship origins of the U.S. Navy ; Europe, the Bourbon Compact, and the American Revolution ; The southern expedition of 1775 and the limitations of British power ; 1775: a good year for revolution.
Summary What if the year that has long been commemorated as America's defining moment was in fact, misleading? In this book the author, a historian punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. 1775 was the year in which Patriots captured British forts and fought battles from the Canadian border to the Carolinas, obtained the needed gunpowder, and orchestrated the critical months of nation building in the backrooms of a secrecy-shrouded Congress. He suggests that the great events and confrontations of 1775 such as Congress's belligerent economic ultimatums to Britain, New England's 'rage militaire, ' the exodus of British troops and expulsion of royal governors up and down the seaboard, the new provincial congresses and hundreds of local committees that quickly reconstituted local authority in Patriot hands, were the events that delivered a sweeping Patriot control of territory and local government that Britain was never able to overcome. Here the author surveys the political climate, economic structures, and military preparations, as well as the roles of ethnicity, religion, and class to demonstrate how they had a huge effect on how the country shaped itself. This work attempts to revolutionize the understanding of America's origins.
Subject United States. Continental Congress.
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Common sense.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.
Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775.
Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775.
Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Siege, 1775-1776.
Fort Ticonderoga (N.Y.) -- Capture, 1775.
United States. Continental Congress. (OCoLC)fst00542848
Common sense (Paine, Thomas) (OCoLC)fst01357815
New York (State) -- Fort Ticonderoga. (OCoLC)fst01244397
Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
Massachusetts -- Boston. (OCoLC)fst01205012
Massachusetts -- Concord. (OCoLC)fst01204990
Massachusetts -- Lexington. (OCoLC)fst01287073
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
United States. Continental Congress.
Lexington (Mass.), Battle of, 1775.
Concord (Mass.), Battle of, 1775.
Bunker Hill (Boston, Mass.), Battle of, 1775.
United States -- History -- 1775-1783, Revolution.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783, Revolution.
Fort Ticonderoga (N.Y.) -- Capture, 1775.
Battle of Lexington (Lexington, Massachusetts : 1775) (OCoLC)fst01404314
American Revolution (United States : 1775-1783) (OCoLC)fst01351668
Battle of Concord (Concord, Massachusetts : 1775) (OCoLC)fst01404288
Siege of Boston (Boston, Massachusetts : 1775-1776) (OCoLC)fst01354735
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga (Fort Ticonderoga, New York : 1775) (OCoLC)fst01906833
Chronological Term 1775-1783
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title Good year for revolution
Seventeen seventy-five
ISBN 9780670025121 (hbk.)
0670025127 (hbk.)
9780143123996
0143123998

 
    
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