Name: The Glorious Cause By Robert Middlekauff (Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, University of California at Berkeley (Emeritus))
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff (Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, University of California at Berkeley (Emeritus))

The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume-a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize-offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. Beginning with the French and Indian War and continuing to the election of George Washington as first president, Robert Middlekauff offers a panoramic history of the conflict between England and America, highlighting the drama and anguish of the colonial struggle for independence. Combining the political and the personal, he provides a compelling account of the key events that precipitated the war, from the Stamp Act to the Tea Act, tracing the gradual gathering of American resistance that culminated in the Boston Tea Party and "the shot heard 'round the world." The heart of the book features a vivid description of the eight-year-long war, with gripping accounts of battles and campaigns, ranging from Bunker Hill and Washington's crossing of the Delaware to the brilliant victory at Hannah's Cowpens and the final triumph at Yorktown, paying particular attention to what made men fight in these bloody encounters. The book concludes with an insightful look at the making of the Constitution in the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 and the struggle over ratification. Through it all, Middlekauff gives the reader a vivid sense of how the colonists saw these events and the importance they gave to them. Common soldiers and great generals, Sons of Liberty and African slaves, town committee-men and representatives in congress-all receive their due. And there are particularly insightful portraits of such figures as Sam and John Adams, James Otis, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and many others. This new edition has been revised and expanded, with fresh coverage of topics such as mob reactions to British measures before the War, military medicine, women's role in the Revolution, American Indians, the different kinds of war fought by the Americans and the British, and the ratification of the Constitution. The book also has a new epilogue and an updated bibliography. The cause for which the colonists fought, liberty and independence, was glorious indeed. Here is an equally glorious narrative of an event that changed the world, capturing the profound and passionate struggle to found a free nation.

The Glorious Cause Reviews

"[A] tour de force. Middlekauff has the admirable ability to capture historical truths in vivid images and memorable phrases.... Middlekauff's empathy enhances this massive book's cumulative power. The cause was glorious; the book is too."-Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post Book World
"This is narrative history at its best, written in a conversational and engaging style.... A major revision and expansion of a popular history of the American Revolutionary period."-Library Journal
"The reader in search of a wide-ranging overview of the Revolution would be better off turning to any number of earlier books (from Trevelyan's classic 'American Revolution' to more recent works like 'The Glorious Cause' by Robert Middlekauff)."-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, in a review of 1776

About Robert Middlekauff (Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, University of California at Berkeley (Emeritus))

Robert Middlekauff is Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. The winner of a Bancroft Prize for The Mathers, he was Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University and also served as Director of the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Gardens.

Maps Editor's Introduction Porlogue: The Sustaining Truths 1. The Obstructed Giant 2. The Children of the Twice-Born 3. Beginnings: From the Top Down 4. The Stamp Act Crisis 5. Response 6. Selden's Penny 7. Chance and Charles Townshend 8. Boston Takes the Lead 9. The "Bastards of England" 10. Drift 11. Resolution 12. War 13. "Half a War" 14. Independence 15. The War of Posts 16. The War of Maneuver 17. The Revolution Becomes a European War 18. The War in the South 19. The "Fugitive War" 20. Inside the Campaigns 21. Outside the Campaigns 22. Yorktown and Paris 23. The Constitutional Movement 24. The Children of the Twice-Born in the 1780s 25. The Constitutional Convention 26. Ratification: An End and a Beginning Epilogue

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Title

The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff (Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, University of California at Berkeley (Emeritus))

Author

Robert Middlekauff (Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, University of California at Berkeley (Emeritus))

Series

Oxford History of the United States

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Paperback

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Oxford University Press Inc

Year published

2007-05-24

Number of pages

752

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The Glorious Cause Robert Middlekauff (Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, University of California at Berkeley (Emeritus))

The Glorious Cause by Robert Middlekauff (Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, University of California at Berkeley (Emeritus))

The Glorious Cause Summary

The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff (Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, University of California at Berkeley (Emeritus))

The Glorious Cause Reviews

About Robert Middlekauff (Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, University of California at Berkeley (Emeritus))

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