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The founding of a nation: a history of the American Revolution, 1763-1776

Merrill Jensen 1968 © Merrill Jensen
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  • American: Colonial to 1789
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  • Introduction (page xi)
  • Part One: The First Crisis (page 3)
  • I America in 1763 (page 7)
  • II British Politics, Policies, and America, 1763-1765 (page 36)
  • II The Economics and the Politics of American Protest, 1763-1764 (page 70)
  • IV The Revolt Against the Stamp Act (page 98)
  • V The Nullification of the Stamp Act (page 126)
  • VI The First British Retreat: Repeal of the Stamp Act and Commercial Reform (page 155)
  • Part Two: The Widening Rift (page 183)
  • VII The Aftermath of the Stamp Act in America (page 186)
  • VII The Aftermath of the Stamp Act in Britain: The Townshend Program (page 215)
  • IX The Constitutional Protest Against the Townshend Program (page 239)
  • X Politicians, Merchants, Customs Officers, and Non-importation in the North, 1767-1769 (page 265)
  • XI The British Army, Boston, Parliament, and Non-importation in the South (page 288)
  • XII The Second British Retreat, 1769-1770 (page 314)
  • XIII The Climax of American Resistance, 1769-1770 (page 334)
  • XIV The Collapse of American Resistance, 1770 (page 354)
  • Part Three: The Final Break (page 373)
  • XV The Various Roads to Crisis: America South and West of New England (page 377)
  • XVI The Revival of Popular Power in New England (page 403)
  • XVII From India to Boston Harbor: Tea, Tea Parties, and the Intolerable Acts (page 434)
  • XVIII The Beginnings of American Union: The Creation of the First Continental Congress (page 461)
  • XIX The First Continental Congress (page 483)
  • XX The Road to Concord Bridge: The Way of Politics (page 508)
  • XXI The Road to Concord Bridge: The Way of Force (page 535)
  • XXII The Beginnings of a Civil War (page 568)
  • XXIII Revolution vs. Reconciliation: The American Dilemma (page 602)
  • XXIV The Dream of Reconciliation and the Drive for Independence 1775-1776 (page 632)
  • XXV The Founding of a Nation: "The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America" (page 667)
  • Table of Symbols (page 705)
  • Index (page 709)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AHR 75.3 (Feb. 1970): 915-917 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28197002%2975%3A3%3C915%3ATFOANA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0
WMQ 3.27.1 (Jan. 1970): 148-150 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28197001%293%3A27%3A1%3C148%3ATFOANA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X
JSH 35.3 (Aug. 1969): 406-407 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-4642%28196908%2935%3A3%3C406%3ATFOANA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T
AQ 21.2 (Summer 1969): 378-379 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0678%28196922%2921%3A2%3C378%3ATAR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U
JAH 56.1 (Jun. 1969): 124-126 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28196906%2956%3A1%3C124%3ATFOANA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O
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