A leap in the dark : the struggle to create the American republic /
It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretati...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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- Preface
- 1754-1763 : Join, or die
- 1763-1766 : Loss of respect and affection
- 1766-1770 : To crush the spirit of the colonies
- 1770-1774 : Cause of Boston now is the cause of America
- 1775-1776 : To die freemen rather than to live slaves
- 1776-1777 : Leap into the dark
- 1778-1782 : This wilderness of darkness and dangers
- 1783-1787 : Present paroxysm of our affairs
- 1787-1789 : So much unanimity and good will
- 1790-1793 : Prosperous at home, respectable abroad
- 1793-1796 : Colossus to the Antirepublican party
- 1797-1799 : Game where principles are the stake
- 1799-1801 : Gigg is up
- 1801 : Age of revolution and reformation.