The creation of America
Subtitle: through revolution to empire
By: Francis Jennings.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes
Description: Presents a realistic picture of a privileged elite who are dreaming of empires, who clone their own empire from the British. Shows that the colonists from the first intended to conquer American Indians. Some colonists bought African as slaves and rigidly ruled over them. Interprets the revolutionary rhetoric about liberty and virtue as war propaganda.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-327) and index.
"Books by Francis Jennings": p. [iii].