Birth of the Republic, 1763-89

Name: Birth of the Republic, 1763-89
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ISBN: 9780226537573

ISBN-10: 0226537579

ISBN-13: 9780226537573

Edition: 3rd 1992

Authors: Edmund S. Morgan

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In one remarkable quarter-century, thirteen quarrelsome colonies were transformed into a nation. Edmund S. Morgan's classic account of the Revolutionary period shows how the challenge of British taxation started the Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom and eventually led to the Revolution. Morgan demonstrates that these principles were not abstract doctrines of political theory but grew instead out of the immediate needs and experiences of the colonists. They were held with passionate conviction, and incorporated, finally, into the constitutions of the new American states and of the United States. Though the basic theme of the book and…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.550
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.



Editor's Foreword to the Third Edition Editor's Foreword to the Second Edition Preface to the Third Edition Preface to the Second Edition Lexington Green



The Americans and the Empire



Sugar and Stamps



Peace without Honor



Troops and Tea



Equal Rights



War and Peace



The Independent States



The Independent Nation



"The Critical Period"



The Constitutional Convention



Ratification Appendix: Basic Documents of the Revolution The Declaration of Independence The Articles of Confederation The Constitution of the United States The Bill of Rights


Bibliographical


Note Important Dates


Index