1775 : a good year for revolution / Kevin Phillips.
By: Phillips, Kevin
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TextPublisher: New York : Viking, 2012Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [551]-604) and index.Description: xxvi, 628 p. [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780670025121; 0670025127.Other title: Seventeen seventy-five | Good year for revolution.Subject(s): Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Common sense | United States. Continental Congress | Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775 | Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775 | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 | United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 | Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Siege, 1775-1776 | Fort Ticonderoga (N.Y.) -- Capture, 1775DDC classification: 973.3 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 973.3 P544 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284001014521 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [551]-604) and index.
Introduction -- The Revolution : provocations, motivations, and alignments -- 1775 : the battlegrounds -- Consequences and ramifications.
Punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. Suggests that the great events and confrontations of 1775--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, and the new provincial congresses and hundreds of local committees that quickly reconstituted local authority in Patriot hands--achieved a sweeping Patriot control of territory and local government that Britain was never able to overcome.
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