Full name: From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776

Author: Pauline Maier Year: 1972 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393308259 0393308251

In this classic account of the American revolution, Pauline Maier traces the step-by-step process through which the extra-legal institutions of the colonial resistance movement assumed authority from the British. She follows the American Whigs as they moved by stages from the organized resistance of the Stamp Act crisis of 1765 through the non-importation associations of the late 1760s to the collapse of royal government after 1773, the implication of the king in a conspiracy against American liberties, and the consequent Declaration of Independence. Professor Maier's great achievement is to explain how Americans came to contemplate and establish their independence, guided by principle, reason, and experience. Similar books: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn The Glorious Cause by Robert Middlekauff "A Few Bloody Noses" by Robert Harvey Revolutionaries by Jack Rakove The Marketplace of Revolution by T. H. Breen American Spring by Walter R. Borneman American Insurgents, American Patriots by T. H. Breen The Birth of the Republic by Edmund S. Morgan Independence by John Ferling Origins of the American Revolution by John C. Miller The Perils of Peace by Thomas Fleming A Leap in the Dark by John Ferling The Urban Crucible by Gary B. Nash Liberty! by Thomas Fleming Ratification by Pauline Maier Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer