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An edition of 1775 (2012)

1775

a good year for revolution

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What if the year we have long commemorated as America's defining moment was in fact misleading? What if the real events that signaled the historic shift from colony to country took place earlier, and that the true story of our nation's emergence reveals a more complicated -- and divisive -- birth process? In this major new work, iconoclastic historian and political chronicler Kevin Phillips upends the conventional reading of the American Revolution by puncturing the myth that 1776 was the struggle's watershed year. Mythology and omission have elevated 1776, but the most important year, rarely recognized, was 1775: the critical launching point of the war and Britain's imperial outrage and counterattack and the year during which America's commitment to revolution took bloody and irreversible shape. Phillips focuses on the great battlefields and events of 1775 -- Congress's warlike economic ultimatums to king and parliament, New England's rage militaire, the panicked concentration of British troops in militant but untenable Boston, the stunning expulsion of royal governors up and down the seaboard, and the new provincial congresses and many hundreds of local committees that quickly reconstituted local authority in Patriot hands. These onrushing events delivered a sweeping control of territory and local government to the Patriots, one that Britain was never able to overcome. 1775 was the year in which Patriots captured British forts and fought battles from the Canadian frontier to the Carolinas, obtained the needed gunpowder in machinations that reached from the Baltic to West Africa and the Caribbean, and orchestrated the critical months of nation building in the back rooms of a secrecy-shrouded Congress. As Phillips writes, "The political realignment achieved amid revolution was unique -- no other has come with simultaneous ballots and bullets." - Jacket flap.

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Viking
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English

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Table of Contents

Preface : Why 1775
Part one : Introduction.
The spirit of 1775
Part two : The Revolution : provocations, motivations, and alignments.
Liberty's vanguard
Religion, ethnicity, and revolutionary loyalty
A revolution for economic self-determination
Urban radicalism and the tide of revolution
Challenge from the backcountry
The ideologies of revolution
Part three : 1775 : The battlegrounds.
Fortress New England?
Declaring economic war
Five roads to Canada
The global munitions struggle, 1774-1776
The supply war at sea
The first British southern strategy, 1775-1776
Is Falmouth burning?
Red, white, and black
Divided national opinion and Britain's need to hire mercenaries
The Chesapeake : America's vulnerable estuary
The American Revolution as a civil war
The Declaration of Independence : a stitch in time?
Part four : Consequences and ramifications.
The Battle of Boston : a great American victory
Canada : defeat or victory?
Lord Dunmore's second war
Whaleboats, row galleys, schooners, and submarines : the small-ship origins of the U.S. Navy
Europe, the Bourbon Compact, and the American Revolution
The southern expedition of 1775 and the limitations of British power
1775 : a good year for revolution

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York
Other Titles
Seventeen seventy-five

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.3
Library of Congress
E231 .P55 2012, E231.P55 2012

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xxvi, 628 p., [16] p. of plates
Dimensions
25 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25173847M
Internet Archive
1775goodyearforr0000phil
ISBN 10
0670025127
ISBN 13
9780670025121
LCCN
2012001786
OCLC/WorldCat
772774173

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