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A leap in the dark : the struggle to create the American republic / John Ferling.

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Ferling, John E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States > History > 1783-1815.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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