The Causes of the War of Independence
Subtitle: being the first volume of a history of the founding of the American republic
Series: Founding of the American republic ; v. 1
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1922
Place of publication: Boston and New York
Language: eng
Copyright date: 1922
Subjects: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes.; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 18th century.
Notes: Series statement from flyleaf.
Table of contents: title: Conditions which formed the American spirit; title: Conditions of colonial government which bred independence; title: British expansion creates imperial problems; title: The world's colonial experiences which might guide British statesmen; title: Groping for solutions of the imperial problems; title: The Stamp Act reveals weakness in the imperial fabric; title: The repeal of the Stamp Act; title: Conflicting theories of representation and imperial organization; title: American versus English ideas of the British Constitution; title: The "genius" of Townshend threatens to wreck the empire; title: Measures that raised rebellion but did not quell it; title: The social and intellectual gulf between the parts of the empire; title: Religious and sectarian forces which threatened imperial unity; title: The Boston "Tea Party"; title: Lord North's effort to preserve imperial dignity; title: Union for resistance; title: The Continental Congress and the first bloodshed; title: The freest of peoples were the first to rebel