Causes and consequences of the American Revolution.

Author/creator Wright, Esmond
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : Quadrangle Books, 1966.
Description316 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents I. Introduction. The significance and problems of the Revolution -- Historians and the Revolution -- A guide to the bibliography of the Revolution -- II. Causes. The imperialist interpretation. The American Revolution / Herbert L. Osgood -- The American Revolution : an interpretation / Charles M. Andrews -- The American Revolution as an aftermath of the Great War for the Empire, 1754-1763 / Lawrence Henry Gepson -- The progressive interpretation. The American Revolution reconsidered / Arthur M. Schlesinger -- The first American Revolution / Louis M. Hacker -- The neo-Whig interpretation. Whig propagandists of the American Revolution / Philip G. Davidson -- Mercantilism and the American Revolution / Lawrence A. Harper (with some comments by O.M. Dickerson) -- The American Revolution considered as an intellectual movement / Edmund S. Morgan -- The conservative interpretation. King George III : A study of personality / Lewis B. Namier -- Parliament : politics and policy, 1763- 1774 / Esmond Wright -- Parliamentary supremacy versus independence / Richard W. Van Alystne.
Contents III. Consequences. The Confederation period. The Confederation period and the American historian / Richard B. Morris -- Consequences for thew United States. The dispersion of the American Tories / Wilbur H. Siebert -- The American Revolution considered as a social movement : a re-evaluation / Frederick B. Tolles -- Democracy and the American Revolution / Merrill Jensen -- The American revolution considered as an economic movement / Clarence L. Ver Steeg -- Consequences for the world. The place of the American Revolution in the causal pattern of the French Revolution / Louis Gottschalk -- The effect of the loss of the American colonies upon British policy / W.R. Brock.
Bibliography noteBibliography: p. [52]-62. Bibliographical footnotes.
LCCN 66011876

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Joyner General Stacks E209 .W75 1966 ✔ Available Place Hold