1775: A Good Year for RevolutionA groundbreaking account of the American Revolution—from the bestselling author of American Dynasty In this major new work, iconoclastic historian and political chronicler Kevin Phillips upends the conventional reading of the American Revolution by debunking the myth that 1776 was the struggle’s watershed year. Focusing on the great battles and events of 1775, Phillips surveys the political climate, economic structures, and military preparations of the crucial year that was the harbinger of revolution, tackling the eighteenth century with the same skill and perception he has shown in analyzing contemporary politics and economics. The result is a dramatic account brimming with original insights about the country we eventually became. |
Contents
THE REVOLUTIONPROVOCATIONS | 35 |
Religion Ethnicity and Revolutionary Loyalty | 67 |
A Revolution for Economic SelfDetermination | 91 |
Urban Radicalism and the Tide of Revolution | 132 |
Challenge from the Backcountry | 164 |
The Ideologies of Revolution | 195 |
Fortress New England? | 225 |
Declaring Economic War | 249 |
The American Revolution as a Civil War | 414 |
The Declaration of Independencea Stitch in Time? | 431 |
CONSEQUENCES AND RAMIFICATIONS | 445 |
A Great American Victory | 447 |
Defeat or Victory? | 461 |
Lord Dunmores Second War | 477 |
The SmallShip Origins of the U S Navy | 492 |
Europe the Bourbon Compact and the American Revolution | 506 |
Five Roads to Canada | 272 |
The Global Munitions Struggle 17741776 | 295 |
The Supply War at Sea | 314 |
The First British Southern Strategy 17751776 | 331 |
Is Falmouth Burning? | 343 |
Red White and Black | 357 |
Divided National Opinion and Britains Need to Hire Mercenaries | 378 |
The Chesapeake Americas Vulnerable Estuary | 394 |
The Southern Expedition of 1775 and the Limitations of British Power | 522 |
A Good Year for Revolution | 539 |
Acknowledgments | 547 |
Notes | 551 |
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