
- 384 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
An indispensable resource for investigating America's War for Independence, this book provides a comprehensive yet concise narrative that combines the author's original perspectives with the latest scholarship on the subject. Without the War for Independence and its successful outcome for the patriots, the course of American developmentāour institutions, culture, politics, and economicsāwould have run in radically different directions. From any perspective, the War for Independence was one of the seminal events of national history. This book offers a clear, easy-to-read, and complete overview of the origins of the imperial crisis, the course of the war, and the ultimate success of the movement for independence. It also emphasizes the human cost of the struggle: the ferocity of the fighting that stemmed from the belief among participants on all sides that defeat was tantamount to cultural, political, and even physical extinction. The narrative encompasses the author's original insights and takes advantage of the newest scholarship on the American Revolution. The book includes primary documents and biographical sketches representative of the various participants in the revolutionary struggleāfor example, private soldiers, senior officers, loyalists, women, blacks, and Indiansāas well as famous speeches and important American and British official documents. The edited documents offer readers a sense of the actual voices of the revolutionary struggle and a deeper understanding of how primary documents serve historians' narration and interpretation of long-ago events. The result is a new synthesis that brings a deeper understanding of America's defining struggle to an informed public readership as well as college and high school students.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Recent Titles
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Series Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Prologue: āIn Arms and in Motionā: The Origins of a War
- Chapter 1. Fortunes of War: Patriot High Tide and Imperial Counterattack
- Chapter 2. New Realities, New Challenges: From Colonial Rebellion to World War
- Chapter 3. Imperial Reset: New Strategy, New Problems
- Chapter 4. Patriot Nadir: War without End, 1780
- Chapter 5. The Wars within the War: Stark Challenges, Dark Realities
- Chapter 6. Fortunes of War: The Southern Campaigns
- Chapter 7. Yorktown and Beyond
- Epilogue: A War in Retrospect
- Analytical Essays
- Biographical Essays
- Primary Documents
- Annotated Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author