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American Revolution - 1775–83, struggle by which the Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic seaboard of North America won independence from Great Britain and became the United States. It is also called the American War of Independence.

Causes and Early Troubles

By the middle of the 18th cent., differences in life, thought, and interests had developed between the mother country and the growing


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    The Causes of the American Revolution » Read Now

    by John C. Wahlke. 134 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...THE CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Revised Edition -ii- The Causes of the American Revolution Revised Edition EDITED...longer doubt that the causes of the American...
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    Origins of the American Revolution » Read Now

    by John C. Miller. 519 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...Halifax , June 14, 1765, P.R.O., C.O., Class 5, 1345. Jonathan Boucher, A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution , London, 1797, xliii preface ...
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    Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces and Colonial Americans, 1677-1763 » Read Now

    by Douglas Edward Leach. 234 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...AND COLONIAL AMERICANS, 1677-1763...States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783-- Causes. I. Title. E181...Coming of the American Revolution , which, although...coming of the...
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    British Views of the American Revolution: A Conflict Over Rights of Sovereignty, in Early American Literature » Read Now

    by Peter J. Stanlis. 11 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...as Wilkes, Junius, Mrs. Macaulay, revolutionary "rights of man" eighteenth-century...empirical facts of history and law made the American colonies constituent parts of the...
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    The Eve of the Revolution: A Chronicle of the Breach with England » Read Now

    by Carl Becker, Humphrey Milford. 272 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...in the significance of the "glorious revolution," the high justification of which was...in Westminster; but men of the best American families, fashioning their minds...
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    The Maritime Commerce of Colonial Philadelphia » Read Now

    by Arthur L. Jensen. 312 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...that the old revolutionary battle-cry of...history of the American colonies when...century before the American Revolution. The merchants...West Indies American colonial...
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    Preliminaries of the Revolution, 1763-1775 » Read Now

    by George Elliott Howard. 359 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...chap. xiv. American Revolution chap. xiv...antecedent causes tending to...origin of the Revolution is coeval...sentiment of American union. Its assigned causes are...
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    The Colonial Background of the American Revolution: Four Essays in American Colonial History » Read Now

    by Charles M. Andrews. 226 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...principle of the Revolution was that the colonies...complete in each American parliament as in...the world. Other causes, therefore, than...be found for our Revolution. He...
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    Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal Constitution » Read Now

    by S. E. Morison. 370 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...Egerton Causes and Character of the American Revolution Oxford...whole of the Revolutionary period, by...authority on American history...Van Tyne Causes of the War...roots...
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    The Coming of the Revolution, 1763-1775 » Read Now

    by Lawrence Henry Gipson. 306 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
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    The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence » Read Now

    by T. H. Breen. 380 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable of...
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    The British Atlantic Empire before the American Revolution » Read Now

    by Peter Marshall, Glyn Williams. 131 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library

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