A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror (169 page)

26. Esmond Wright,
The Search for Liberty: From Origins to Independence
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1995), 327; Bernard Bailyn and Philip D. Morgan, eds.,
Strangers Within the Realm
(Williamsburg, VA: Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1991); Bernard Bailyn,
The Peopling of British North America
(New York: Knopf, 1986).

27. David S. Landes,
The Unbound Prometheus: Technical Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969); Joel Mokyr,
The Lever of Riches
(New York: Oxford, 1990).

28. Lawrence Harper, “Mercantilism and the American Revolution,”
Canadian Historical Review
, 23 (1942), 1–15; Robert P. Thomas, “A Quantitative Approach to the Study of the Effects of British Imperial Policy on Colonial Welfare,”
Journal of Economic History
, 25 (1965), 615–38.

29. Paul Johnson,
A History of the American People
(New York: HarperCollins, 1997), 91.

30. R. J. Brugger,
Maryland: A Middle Temperament, 1634–1980
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988), 87.

31. Thomas Doerflinger,
A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1986), 351.

32. John J. McCusker and Russel B. Menard,
The Economy of British America
,
1607–1789
(Chapel Hill: Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 1985).

33. Schweikart,
Entrepreneurial Adventure
, 43; Alice Hanson Jones,
Wealth of a Nation to Be: The American Colonies on the Eve of Revolution
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1980).

34. Bernard Bailyn, et al,
The Great Republic: A History of the American People
, 3rd ed., (Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath, 1985), 89–90.

35. Marjorie Marion Spector,
The American Department of the British Government
,
1768–82
(New York: Octagon Books, 1976 [1940]).

36. H. H. Peckham,
The Colonial Wars
,
1689–1762
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964); Max Savelle,
Empires to Nations: Expansion in North America
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1974); D. E. Leach,
Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces and Colonial Americans, 1677–1763
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986).

37. James T. Flexner,
George Washington: The Forge of Experience
,
1732–75
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1965).

38. Douglas Southall Freeman,
George Washington: A Biography
, vol. 3. (New York: Charles Scribner’s, 1948–1957), 89.

39. France’s victory at Fort William Henry and its shameful role in the massacre that the Indians soon perpetrated was immortalized in James Fenimore Cooper’s classic novel,
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757
(New York: State University of New York Press, 1983).

40. Francis Parkman and C. Vann Woodward,
Montcalm and Wolfe
(Cambridge, MA: DaCapo Press, 2001).

41. Fred Anderson,
Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766
(New York: Vintage, 2001).

42. Gordon S. Wood,
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
(New York: Knopf, 1992).

43. Lawrence Gipson,
The Coming of the American Revolution, 1763–1775
(New York: Harper, 1954); Richard Johnson,
Adjustment to Empire: The New England Colonies, 1675–1715
(New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1981).

 

Chapter 3. Colonies No More, 1763–83

1. Barbara Graymont,
The Iroquois in the American Revolution
(Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1972); Francis Jennins,
The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1984); Richard Aquila,
The Iroquois Restoration: Iroquois Diplomacy on the Colonial Frontier, 1701–1754
(Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1997).

2. Gregory E. Dowd,
A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745–1815
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992); Howard Peckham,
Pontiac and the Indian Uprising
(New York: Russell and Russell, 1970).

3. Jack Sosin,
Whitehall and the Wilderness: The Middle West in British Colonial Policy, 1760–1775
(Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1961).

4. Dale Van Every,
Forth to the Wilderness: The First American Frontier, 1754–1774
(New York: Morrow, 1961).

5. Richard White,
The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).

6. Jack M. Sosin,
The Revolutionary Frontier
,
1763–1783
(New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967); John W. Shy,
Toward Lexington: The Role of the British Army in the Coming of the American Revolution
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1065).

7. Lawrence H. Gipson,
The British Empire Before the American Revolution
(New York: Knopf, 1954); Bernard Donoughue,
British Politics and the American Revolution: The Path to War
(London: Macmillan, 1964).

8. Lawrence Harper, “Mercantilism and the American Revolution,”
Canadian Historical Review
, 23 (1942), 1–15; Peter McClelland, “The Cost to America of British Imperial Policy,”
American Economic Review
, 59 (1969), 370–81.

9. Bernard Bailyn,
New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955). Compare his assessment with the class-struggle model (rejected here) of Gary B. Nash,
The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, abridged, 1986).

10. Pauline Maier,
The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams
(New York: Knopf, 1980); and A. J. Langguth,
Patriots: The Men who Started the American Revolution
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988).

11. William B. Willcox, ed.,
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974), 18:102.

12. Winston Churchill,
The Great Republic: A History of America
(New York: Random House, 1999), 57.

13. George III quoted in Churchill,
Great Republic
, 58.

14. Chitwood,
History of Colonial America
, 517; Alan Brinkley,
American History: A Survey
, 9th ed., Vol. I (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995), 104.

15. Oliver M. Dickerson,
The Navigation Acts and the American Revolution
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1951).

16. Paul Johnson,
A History of the American People
(New York: HarperCollins, 1997), 133; Esmund Wright,
Franklin of Philadelphia
(Cambridge: Belknap/Harvard, 1986).

17. Peter D. G. Thomas,
The Townshend Duties Crisis: The Second Phase of the American Revolution, 1767–1773
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987); and his
Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773–1776
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991).

18. Jerrilyn Marston,
King and Congress: The Transfer of Political Legitamacy, 1774–1776
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987).

19. Schweikart,
Entrepreneurial Adventure
, chap. 1.

20. Charles Royster,
A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775–1783
(Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Institute of Early American History and Culture and University of North Carolina Press, 1979), 6.

21. Johnson,
History of the American People
, 133; Edmund S. Morgan and Helen M. Morgan,
The Stamp Act Crisis
(New York: Collier, 1962).

22. Adams quoted in Marvin Olasky,
Telling the Truth: How to Revitalize Christian Journalism
(Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1996), 116.

23. Peter D. G. Thomas,
British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis: The First Phase of the American Revolution, 1763–1767
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975).

24. Schweikart,
Entrepreneurial Adventure
, “The Economics of Business,” 54.

25. Chitwood,
History of Colonial America
, 522.

26. Ibid., 523.

27. Bernard Bailyn and J. B. Hench, eds.,
The Press and the American Revolution
(Worcester, MA: American Antequarian Society, 1980); Thomas C. Leonard,
The Power of the Press: The Birth of American Political Reporting
(New York: Oxford, 1996); and Charles E. Clark,
The Public Prints: The Newspaper in Anglo-American Culture
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).

28. Wright,
The Search for Liberty,
437.

29. L. H. Butterfield, ed.,
The Adams Papers: The Diary and Autobiography of John Adams
(Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1961), entry of August 14, 1769.

30. David Hackett Fischer,
Paul Revere’s Ride
(New York: Oxford, 1994), appendix D.

31. Johnson,
History of the American People
, 142.

32. T. H. Breen,
The Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of the Revolution
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985).

33. Thomas Miller, ed.,
The Selected Writings of John Witherspoon
(Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990), 140–41.

34. James H. Hutson,
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
(Washington, DC: The Library of Congress, 1998).

35. M. Stanton Evans,
The Theme Is Freedom: Religion, Politics, and the American Tradition
(Washington: Regnery, 1994), 99.

36. Woodrow Wilson,
A History of the American People
, vol. 2 (New York: Harper & Bros, 1902), 215.

37. Fischer,
Paul Revere’s Ride
, 64.

38. Thomas Hobbes,
The Leviathan
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967 [1651]).

39. John Locke,
Two Treatises of Government
, Peter Laslett, ed., (New York: Mentor, 1965 [1690]);
The Works of John Locke
, 10 vols., (London: n.p. 1823).

40. Charles Montesquieu,
The Spirit of the Laws
, trans. Anne Cohler, et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

41. Bernard Bailyn,
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967).

42. Mark A. Beliles and Stephen K. McDowell,
America’s Providential History
(Charlottesville, VA: Providence Foundation, 1989), 146.

43. Peter Marshall and David Manuel,
The Light and the Glory
(Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1977), 309.

44. Roger Finke and Rodney Stark,
The Churching of America
,
1776–1990: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy
(New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992), 15–16.