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3. Guerrilla or Conventional War
4. The Seizure of Fort Ticonderoga
5. The Response of the Continental Congress
6. Charles Lee: Champion of Liberty and Guerrilla War
8. Washington Transforms the Army
12. New York Fumbles in the Crisis
13. The Suppression of Tories Begins
14. Suppressing Tories in Rhode Island
15. Suppressing Tories in New York
16. Suppressing Tories in the Middle Colonies
17. Virginia Battles Lord Dunmore
18. Battling Tories in the South
PART III
The War in the First Half of 1776
19. The British Assault on Charleston
20. Forcing the British Out of Boston
21. Privateering and the War at Sea
22. Commodities, Manufacturing, and Foreign Trade
24. Polarization in England and the German Response to Renting “Hessians”
PART IV
America Declares Independence
26. Forming New Governments: New Hampshire
27. New England Ready for Independence
28. The Sudden Emergence of Tom Paine
29. Massachusetts Turns Conservative
30. The Drive Toward Independence
31. The Struggle in Pennsylvania and Delaware
32. New Jersey and Maryland Follow
34. New York Succumbs to Independence
PART V
The Military History of the Revolution, 1776–1778
36. The Campaigns in New Jersey
37. Planning in the Winter of 1777
38. Rebellion at Livingston Manor
40. Howe’s Expedition in Pennsylvania
42. The Battle of Monmouth and the Ouster of Lee
43. Response in Britain and France
PART VI
The Political History of the United States, 1776–1778
44. The Drive for Confederation
45. The Articles of Confederation
46. Radicalism Triumphs in Pennsylvania
47. Struggles Over Other State Governments
48. The Rise and Decline of Conservatism in New York
PART VII
The Military History of the Revolution, 1778–1781
49. The End of the War in the North
55. The Emergence of Guerrilla Warfare in South Carolina
57. The Battle of King’s Mountain
58. Greene’s Unorthodox Strategy
60. The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
61. The Liberation of South Carolina
63. After Yorktown in the West
PART VIII
The Political and Economic History of the United States, 1778–1784
66. Land Claims and the Ratification of the Articles of Confederation
67. Inflationary Finance and Price Controls
68. Conservative Counter-Revolution: Massachusetts and Pennsylvania in 1780
69. Robert Morris and the Conservative Counter-Revolution in National Politics, 1780–1782
70. Robert Morris and the Public Debt
71. The Drive for a Federal Tariff
73. The Fall of Morris and the Emergence of the Order of the Cincinnati
74. The Western Lands and the Ordinance of 1784
PART IX
The Impact of the Revolution
78. Elimination of Feudalism and the Beginnings of the Abolition of Slavery
79. Disestablishment and Religious Freedom
80. Was the American Revolution Radical?
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PART I Europe, England, and the New World
1. Europe at the Dawn of the Modern Era
PART II The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century
4. From Company to Royal Colony
5. The Social Structure of Virginia: Planters and Farmers
6. The Social Structure of Virginia: Bondservants and Slaves
8. The Royal Government of Virginia
9. British Mercantilism over Virginia
10. Relations with the Indians
14. The Aftermath of Bacon’s Rebellion in the Other Southern Colonies
15. The Glorious Revolution and its Aftermath
16. Virginia After Bacon’s Rebellion
PART III The Founding of New England
18. The Founding of Plymouth Colony
19. The Founding of Massachusetts Bay
20. The Puritans “Purify”: Theocracy in Massachusetts
21. Suppressing Heresy: The Flight of Roger Williams
22. Suppressing Heresy: The Flight of Anne Hutchinson
23. The Further Settlement of Rhode Island: The Odyssey of Samuell Gorton
24. Rhode Island in the 1650s: Roger Williams’ Shift from Liberty
25. The Planting of Connecticut
26. The Seizure of Northern New England
27. Joint Action in New England: The Pequot War
28. The New England Confederation
29. Suppressing Heresy: Massachusetts Persecutes the Quakers
30. Economics Begins to Dissolve the Theocracy: Disintegration of the Fur Monopoly
31. Economics Begins to Dissolve the Theocracy: The Failure of Wage and Price Control
32. Mercantilism, Merchants, and “Class Conflict”
33. Economics Begins to Dissolve the Theocracy. The Failure of Subsidized Production
34. The Rise of the Fisheries and the Merchants
35. Theocracy Begins to Wither: The Half-Way Covenant
36. The Decline and the Rigors of Plymouth
37. The Restoration Crisis in New England
PART IV The Rise and Fall of New Netherland
38. The Formation of New Netherland
41. New Netherland Persecutes the Quakers
42. The Fall and Breakup of New Netherland
PART V The Northern Colonies in the Last Quarter of the Seventeenth Century
43. The Northern Colonies, 1666-1675
44. The Beginning of Andros’ Rule in New York
45. Further Decline of the Massachusetts Theocracy
47. The Crown Begins the Takeover of New England, 1676-1679
48. The Crown Takes over New Hampshire, 1680-1685
49. Edward Randolph Versus Massachusetts, 1680-1684
50. The Reopening of the Narragansett Claims, 1679-1683
51. The Rule of Joseph Dudley and the Council of New England
53. Turmoil in East New Jersey, 1678-1686
54. The Development of West New Jersey
55. “The Holy Experiment”: The Founding of Pennsylvania, 1681-1690
56. The Dominion of New England
57. The Glorious Revolution in the Northern Colonies, 1689-1690
58. The Glorious Revolution in the Northern Colonies, 1690-1692
59. Aftermath in the 1690s: The Salem Witch-Hunt and Stoughton’s Rise to Power
60. The Liberalism of Lord Bellomont in the Royal Colonies
61. The Aftermath of Bellomont
62. Rhode Island and Connecticut After the Glorious Revolution
63. The Unification of the Jerseys
64. Government Returns to Pennsylvania
65. The Colonies in the First Decade of the Eighteenth Century
What! Another American history book? The reader may be pardoned for wondering about the point of another addition to the seemingly inexhaustible flow of books and texts on American history. One problem, as pointed out in the bibliographical essay at the end of this volume, is that the survey studies of American history have squeezed out the actual stuff of history, the narrative facts of the important events of the past. With the true data of history squeezed out, what we have left are compressed summaries and the historian’s interpretations and judgments of the data. There is nothing wrong with the historian’s having such judgments; indeed, without them, history would be a meaningless and giant almanac listing dates and events with no causal links. But, without the narrative facts, the reader is deprived of the data from which he can himself judge the historian’s interpretations and evolve interpretations of his own. A major point of this and succeeding volumes is to put back the historical narrative into American history.
