Birth of the Republic, 1763-89, Fourth Edition

Name: Birth of the Republic, 1763-89, Fourth Edition
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ISBN: 9780226923420

ISBN-10: 0226923428

ISBN-13: 9780226923420

Edition: 4th 2012

Authors: Edmund S. Morgan, Rosemarie Zagarri

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InThe Birth of the Republic, 1763–89, Edmund S. Morgan shows how the challenge of British taxation started Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom, and eventually led to the Revolution. By demonstrating that the founding fathers’ political philosophy was not grounded in theory, but rather grew out of their own immediate needs, Morgan paints a vivid portrait of how the founders’ own experiences shaped their passionate convictions, and these in turn were incorporated into the Constitution and other governmental documents. The Birth of the Republicis the classic account of the beginnings of the American government, and in this fourth edition the original…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/29/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. His many books include American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia and Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America.



Foreword to the Fourth Edition



Preface to the Third Edition


Preface to the Second Edition


Lexington Green



The Americans and the Empire



Sugar and Stamps, 1764-66



Peace without Honor, 1766-68



Troops and Tea, 1768-74



Equal Rights, 1774-76



War and Peace, 1776-83



The Independent States



The Independent Nation, 1776-81



"The Critical Period"



The Constitutional Convention



Ratification





The Declaration of Independence


The Articles of Confederation


The Constitution of the United States


The Bill of Rights


Bibliographical Note


Scholarship on the American Revolution since The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89



Important Dates


Index