1st Edition
The Historical Atlas of the American Revolution
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. (from The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776) By the mid-1700s substantial differences in life, thought, and interests had developed between the British North American Colonies and the mother country. A... Read more
Chapter 1 British North America; Chapter 2 Prologue to Dissent; Chapter 3 The Shot Heard Around the World; Chapter 4 Washington Assumes Command; Chapter 5 The Help of Foreign Friends; Chapter 6 War at Sea; Chapter 7 Other Battle Fronts; Chapter 8 Birth of Politics; Chapter 9 The State Expands;
Biography
Ian Barnes is Principal Lecturer and Programme Leader of the History Department at the University of Derby. He is the author of The History Atlas of Europe, The History Atlas of Asia, and The Enlarged European Union. Charles Royster is Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University. He is the author of The Fabulous History of Dismal Swamp Company: A Study of George Washington's Times; A Revolutionary People at War; and Light Horse Harry Lee and the Legacy of the American Revolution.
"[Barnes] has produced an atlas of high quality that examines one of the critical periods of US history." -- Choice
"Barnes presents the American theater of war as one component in a worldwide series of conflicts between England and its European rivals." -- Choice
"Clear, colorful maps and a thorough, yet concise text make this a work to be considered wherever colonial American history is studied...An excellent presentation of the Era." -- School Library Journal
