| Description |
xvii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Problems in American civilization |
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Problems in American civilization.
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| Contents |
Economic and social origins of the American revolution / Louis M. Hacker -- Were the Navigation Acts oppressive? / Oliver M. Dickerson -- The American Revolution as an aftermath of the great war for the empire, 1754-1763 / Lawrence Henry Gipson -- British provocations in the movement for independence / Bernhard Knollenberg -- The spirit of '76 / Carl Becker -- The role of merchants and radicals / James Truslow Adams -- Jack Tar in the streets: merchant seamen in the politics of revolutionary America / Jesse Lemisch -- The American consensus, 1765-1776 / Clinton Rossiter -- The conflict of ideologies in pre-revolutionary America / Elisha P. Douglass -- Political experience and enlightenment ideas in eighteenth-century America / Bernard Bailyn -- What made our revolution? / Jesse Lemisch -- David Ramsay and the causes of the American Revolution / Page Smith -- Rhetoric and reality in the American Revolution / Gordon S. Wood |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p. 246-249 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140149
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| Author |
Wahlke, John C.
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| LC no. |
73007044 |
| ISBN |
0669826855 |
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