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New York, Clarion Books, 2005.
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| Description |
xviii, 238pOrange spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Aronson brings together the long lines of English and American history that began in the Elizabethan period. As his story ends, a new nation is born, and he leaves his twenty-first century readers with a sense of the challenges they face in guiding its destiny.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements
Cast of Characters
To My Readers
Three Soldiers: Robert Clive, George Washington, and James Wolfe
1. First Soldier: From Despair to Conquest
-Exile in Madras
-The Impossible Siege
-Out of Victory, Defeat
2. Second Soldier: Into the Forest
-The Arrow
-The Half King's Gamble
-"Poor Brittons Remember"
3. The Heroes
-"The Black Hole of Calcutta"
-The Third and Perfect Soldier: James Wolfe
Rights and Rules
4. Three Challenges
-The Legal Challenge: A Child Is Born in Boston
-The Military Challenge: Rebellion in the Appalachian Foothills
-The Mob's Challenge: Hellfire in London
5. London Responds
-The Prime Minister
-The East India Company
6. Slave or Free?
-The Spirit of Freedom
-Slavery
7. Networks
-The Spirit of Democracy
-Mobs
-Franklin Addresses Parliament
8. Edges of Empire
-"The Indians' Hunting Ground"
-Rulers of Bengal
Crisis
9. Half Measures
-"What Is England Now?"
-A Farmer Writes, and the "Man of the Revolution" Speaks
10. Liberty
-Liberty
-Hunger
11. Tea
-"A Design to Enslave America"
-Collapse
Clive and Washington
12. Intolerable
-Action
-Reaction
13. Common Sense
-"An Asylum for Mankind"
-Making a Nation
14. Revolutions
-The Jewel in the Crown
To My Readers, again
Endnotes
Bibliography
Websites
Timeline
Index
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| Standard Number |
978061818179 Hb.
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