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The American Nation: A History, Vol. 8: Preliminaries of the Revolution, 1763–1775

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Historie

A Dusty Tomes Audio Book In Cooperation with Spoken Realms

Preliminaries of the Revolution, 1763–1775 by George Eliot Howard, PhD, Professor of Institutional History at the University of Nebraska

Narrated by Joseph Tabler

Volume 8 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904–1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University.

In the Editor Introduction to the Series: That a new history of the United States is needed, extending from the discovery down to the present time hardly needs statement. No such comprehensive work by a competent writer is now in existence. Individual writers have treated only limited chronological fields. Meantime there, is a rapid increase of published sources and of serviceable monographs based on material hitherto unused. On the one side, there is a necessity for an intelligent summarizing of the present knowledge of American history by trained specialists; on the other hand, there is a need for a complete work, written in untechnical style, which shall serve for the instruction and the entertainment of the general reader.

From the Editor’s Introduction to Volume Eight: Few periods of American history have been more written upon than the decade preceding the Revolution. Nevertheless, there is still room for a brief volume on the subject; all the world knows that the Revolution really began almost fifteen years before its beginning, because of the efforts of the British government to give greater unity and stiffness to its colonial system, both as to government and as to trade with other nations; but the real motives underlying the uneasiness of the colonies still need enlightenment … fresh study of the evidence results in a clearer view of the difficulties of the imperial problem and brings out in sharper relief the reasons for the apparent paradox that the freest people then on earth insisted on and deserved a larger freedom.

From the Author’s Preface: The struggle between the English colonies and the parent state resulting in the recognition of a new and dominant nation in the western hemisphere is justly regarded as a revolution. Its preliminaries cover the twelve years between the peace of Paris in 1763 and the appeal to arms in 1775, but its causes are more remote. Up to the very beginning of hostilities, the colonists disclaimed any desire for independence; yet it seems clear to us that unconsciously they had long been preparing themselves for that event.

Editor’s Introduction Author’s Preface I. The French War Reveals an American People (1763) II. The British Empire under George III. (1760–1775) III. The Mercantile Colonial System (1660–1775) IV. The First Protest of Massachusetts (1761) V. The First Protest of Virginia (1758–1763) VI. The First Act for Revenue from the Colonies (1763–1764) VII. The Menace of the Stamp Act (1764–1765) VIII. America’s Response to the Stamp Act (1765) IX. The Repeal of the Stamp Act (1766) X. The Townshend Revenue Acts (1766–1767) XI. First Fruits of the Townshend Acts (1768–1770) XII. The Anglican Episcopate and the Revolution (1638–1775) XIII. Institutional Beginnings of the West (1768–1775) XIV. Royal Orders and Committees of Correspondence (1770–1773) XV. The Tea-Party and the Coercive Acts (1773–1774) XVI. The First Continental Congress (1774) XVII. The Appeal to Arms (1774–1775) XVIII. The Case of the Loyalists (1763–1775)

Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time. Available as never before, for your pleasure and consideration.

© 2022 Spoken Realms (Lydbog): 9798212340779

Release date

Lydbog: 27. september 2022

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