Author:
Ward, Harry M.
Imprint:New York : St. Martin's Press, c1995.
Descriptionxiv, 432 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Note:Preface - List of Maps - PART 1: THE GATHERING STORM - The American Colonies in 1763 - The View from England - Revolt against Parliamentary Authority - From Resistance to Revolution - Irrevocable Separation - Independence - PART 2: THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, 1776-1783 - The Washington-Howe Campaigns - From Victory to Stalemate in the North - The War Turns Southward - Collapse of the British Southern Invasion - Securing the Frontier - The International Conflict - PART 3: THE UNDERSIDE OF THE REVOLUTION - The Home Front - The Common Soldier - The Noncombatants - Behind Enemy Lines - The Loyalists - PART 4: THE NEW NATION - Sovereign Republics - The Confederation - Impulse for Social Change - Republican Culture - A More Perfect Union - Constitutional Debate in the Press - Triumph of the Federalists - Bibliography - Index.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-418) and index.
