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This outstanding narrative history, the first volume to appear in the Oxford History of the United States, offers an intimate view of the development of the Revolutionary War, the battle between the colonies and the motherland, and the establishment of the American republic. Beginning with the Treaty of Paris in 1763 and continuing to the election of George Washington as the first president, Robert Middlekauff charts the growing conflict between England and America and portrays the drama and anguish of the colonies' struggle for independence.

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• Editor's Introduction(p. xv)
• Prologue: The Sustaining Truths(p. 3)
• 1. The Obstructed Giant(p. 7)
• 2. The Children of the Twice-Born(p. 26)
• 3. Beginnings: From the Top Down(p. 49)
• 4. The Stamp Act Crisis(p. 70)
• 5. Response(p. 94)
• 6. Selden's Penny(p. 118)
• 7. Chance and Charles Townshend(p. 136)
• 8. Boston Takes the Lead(p. 153)
• 9. The "Bastards of England,"(p. 174)
• 10. Drift(p. 208)
• 11. Resolution(p. 221)
• 12. War(p. 250)
• 13. "Half a War"(p. 274)
• 14. Independece(p. 312)
• 15. The War of Posts(p. 333)
• 16. The War of Maneuver(p. 363)
• 17. The Revolution Becomes a European War(p. 396)
• 18. The War in the South(p. 434)
• 19. The "Fugitive War"(p. 458)
• 20. Inside the Campaigns(p. 496)
• 21. Outside the Campaigns(p. 535)
• 22. Yorktown and Paris(p. 559)
• 23. The Constitutional Movement(p. 582)
• 24. The Children of the Twice-Born in the 1780s(p. 602)
• 25. The Constitutional Convention(p. 622)
• 26. Ratification: An End and a Beginning(p. 649)
• Epilogue: The Enduring Truths(p. 665)
• Abbreviated Titles(p. 666)
• Bibliographical Note(p. 669)
• Index(p. 675)

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This series opener is a major revision and expansion of a popular history of the American Revolutionary period originally written in 1982. In addition to revising and updating the text, Middlekauff (history, emeritus, Berkeley) has added new material on the causes of the war, anti-British protests before the war, military medicine, the ratification of the Constitution, and the contributions of women, slaves, and Native Americans. The book concludes with a new epilog and an updated bibliography of sources. One strength of this edition is Middlekauff's effort to incorporate more of the social history of the period, including stories of ordinary people and how the war impacted their lives. This is narrative history at its best, written in a conversational and engaging style. Recommended for libraries needing a single-volume, up-to-date history of the Revolutionary period.-Robert Flatley, Kutztown Univ., PA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Robert Middlekauff is Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent work, The Mathers, was the winner of the Bancroft Prize