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Independence : the tangled roots of the American Revolution / Thomas P. Slaughter.

Summary:

Presents a new interpretation of the American fight for independence that chronicles and clarifies the one hundred fifty-year effort of colonists to escape imperial rule through organized, increasingly intense uprisings.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0809058340
  • ISBN: 9780809058341
  • Physical Description: xix, 487 pages : maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-461) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Foundations. Borderlands ; Commerce ; Wars ; Battlefields ; Global empires ; Hearts and minds -- Fits and stops. The spirit of 1763 ; 1763 ; Taxes ; Stamps ; Resistance ; Massacre -- Independence. Parties ; Intolerable events ; Continental Congress ; Revolution.
Subject: United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Causes.

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  • 7 of 7 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Iredell County Public Library.

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Statesville Main Library 973.311 SLA (Text) 33114017464207 Adult Nonfiction Available -