1775
Subtitle: a good year for revolution
By: Kevin Phillips
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 628
ISBN-13: 9780670025121
Subjects: Politics and government; Capture, 1775; Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775; United States; Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775; United States. Continental Congress; History
Other titles: Seventeen seventy-five
Description: In this book the author, a historian punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. He suggests that the great events and confrontations of 1775 such as Congress's belligerent economic ultimatums to Britain, New England's 'rage militaire,' the exodus of British troops and expulsion of royal governors up and down the seaboard, and the new provincial congresses and hundreds of local committees that quickly reconstituted local authority in Patriot hands, achieved a sweeping Patriot control of territory and local government that Britain was never able to overcome.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface : Why 1775; title: Part one : Introduction.; title: The spirit of 1775; title: Part two : The Revolution : provocations, motivations, and alignments.; title: Liberty's vanguard; title: Religion, ethnicity, and revolutionary loyalty; title: A revolution for economic self-determination; title: Urban radicalism and the tide of revolution; title: Challenge from the backcountry; title: The ideologies of revolution; title: Part three : 1775 : The battlegrounds.; title: Fortress New England?; title: Declaring economic war; title: Five roads to Canada; title: The global munitions struggle, 1774-1776; title: The supply war at sea; title: The first British southern strategy, 1775-1776; title: Is Falmouth burning?; title: Red, white, and black; title: Divided national opinion and Britain's need to hire mercenaries; title: The Chesapeake : America's vulnerable estuary; title: The American Revolution as a civil war; title: The Declaration of Independence : a stitch in time?; title: Part four : Consequences and ramifications.; title: The Battle of Boston : a great American victory; title: Canada : defeat or victory?; title: Lord Dunmore's second war; title: Whaleboats, row galleys, schooners, and submarines : the small-ship origins of the U.S. Navy; title: Europe, the Bourbon Compact, and the American Revolution; title: The southern expedition of 1775 and the limitations of British power; title: 1775 : a good year for revolution