The Long Road to Change : : America's Revolution, 1750-1820 /

The Long Road to Change : : America's Revolution, 1750-1820 / / Eric Nellis.

Breaking from traditional historical interpretations of the period, Eric Nellis takes a long view of the origins and consequences of the Revolution and asserts that the Revolution was not, as others have argued, generated by a well-developed desire for independence, but rather by a series of shifts...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Nellis, Eric,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]
©2007
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Maps and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • I The Colonial Background to the American Revolution
  • II The New British Empire: Reform and Protest, 1763-1774
  • III The Continental Congress,War, Common Sense, and the Declaration of Independence, 1774-1776
  • IV The War for Independence
  • V The Problems of Independence, 1783-1787
  • VI The Constitution, Ratification, and the First Party System
  • VII The Politics of the Federalist Era
  • VIII Jefferson,Madison, and the Expanding Republic
  • IX The War of 1812 and the Sectional Republic
  • Epilogue. The Generation of 1820
  • Appendix 1 The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
  • Appendix 2 The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription
  • Appendix 3 The Bill of Rights, 1791
  • Reference Bibliography
  • Index

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