History of the rise, progress, and termination of the American Revolution
Subtitle: interspersed with biographical, political, and moral observations
By: by Mercy Otis Warren ; edited and annotated by Lester H. Cohen.
Contributors: Cohen, Lester H., 1944-
Publisher: Liberty Classics
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 762
Subjects: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
Description: Mercy Otis Warren has been described as perhaps the most formidable female intellectual in eighteenth-century America. This work (in the first new edition since 1805) is an exciting and comprehensive study of the events of the American Revolution, from the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765 through the ratification of the Constitution in 1788-1789. Steeped in the classical, republican tradition, Warren was a strong proponent of the American Revolution. She was also suspicious of the newly emerging commercial republic of the 1780s and hostile to the Constitution from an Anti-Federalist perspective, a position that gave her history some notoriety.
Notes: Bibliography: v. 1, p. xxviii-xxxi.
Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Printed by Manning and Loring, for E. Larkin, 1805.
Includes indexes.