Birth of the Republic, 1763-89, Fourth Edition
by Morgan, Edmund S.; Ellis, Joseph J.Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-11-29
Publisher(s): Univ of Chicago Pr
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Summary
In The Birth of the Republic, 176389, Edmund S. Morgan shows how the challenge of British taxation started Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom, and eventually led to the Revolution. By demonstrating that the founding fathers' political philosophy was not grounded in theory, but rather grew out of their own immediate needs, Morgan paints a vivid portrait of how the founders' own experiences shaped their passionate convictions, and these in turn were incorporated into the Constitution and other governmental documents. The Birth of the Republicis the classic account of the beginnings of the American government, and in this fourth edition the original text is supplemented with a new foreword by Joseph J. Ellis and a historiographic essay by Rosemarie Zagarri.
Author Biography
Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and past president of the Organization of American Historians.
Table of Contents
| Foreword to the Fourth Edition | p. ix |
| Preface to the Third Edition | p. xiii |
| Preface to the Second Edition | p. xiv |
| Lexington Green | p. 1 |
| The Americans and the Empire | p. 5 |
| Sugar and Stamps, 1764-66 | p. 15 |
| Peace without Honor, 1766-68 | p. 29 |
| Troops and Tea, 1768-74 | p. 43 |
| Equal Rights, 1774-76 | p. 61 |
| War and Peace, 1776-83 | p. 77 |
| The Independent States | p. 88 |
| The Independent Nation, 1776-81 | p. 101 |
| "The Critical Period" | p. 113 |
| The Constitutional Convention | p. 129 |
| Ratification | p. 145 |
| The Declaration of Independence | p. 159 |
| The Articles of Confederation | p. 163 |
| The Constitution of the United States | p. 171 |
| The Bill of Rights | p. 183 |
| Bibliographical Note | p. 185 |
| Scholarship on the American Revolution since The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89 | p. 193 |
| Important Dates | p. 211 |
| Index | p. 215 |
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