A Mighty Empire : : The Origins of the American Revolution / / Marc Egnal.
First published in 1988, Marc Egnal's now classic revisionist history of the origins of the American Revolution, focuses on five colonies—Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina—from 1700 to the post-Revolutionary era. Egnal asserts that throughout colonial America t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (412 p.) :; 10 maps, 3 graphs/charts |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Preface 2010
- Preface to the First Edition
- Note on Definitions
- Abbreviations Used in Notes
- Introduction
- PART ONE The Factions Emerge, 1690-1762
- CHAPTER 1. Massachusetts to 1741: Three Parties Were Formed
- CHAPTER 2. Massachusetts, 1741-1762: Coalition Politics
- CHAPTER 3. New York: Traders and Warriors
- CHAPTER 4. Pennsylvania: Quaker Party Ascendancy
- CHAPTER 5. Virginia: Rise of the Northern Neckers
- CHAPTER 6. South Carolina: Factions Times Two
- PART TWO Revolutionary Politics, 1763-1770
- CHAPTER 7. The Depression of the 1760s
- CHAPTER 8. Massachusetts: Patriot Alliance
- CHAPTER 9. New York: Reluctant Revolutionaries
- CHAPTER 10. Pennsylvania: Challenging the Quaker Party
- CHAPTER 11. Virginia: Conflict and Cooperation
- CHAPTER 12. South Carolina: Triumphant Patriots
- PART THREE The Quiet Years, 1771-1773
- CHAPTER 13. The Quiet Years
- PART FOUR The Expansionists Prevail, 1774-1776
- CHAPTER 14. Northern Colonies: Antagonists High and Low
- CHAPTER 15. Southern Colonies: Maintaining Control
- CHAPTER 16. Beyond Independence
- APPENDIX. Members of the Factions
- Index