Origins of the American Revolution
John C. Miller
- Boston Little, Brown and Company 1943
- 519 p
- An Atlantic monthly press book .
The economic background -- The political background -- England and America on the eve -- The quest for a colonial revenue: the Sugar Act -- The quest for a colonial revenue: the Stamp Act -- The Stamp Act crisis -- The repeal of the Stamp Act -- The ideological conflict: I. The American mind -- The ideological conflict: II. The English mind -- The Townshend duties -- The growth of colonial opposition -- The collapse of colonial opposition -- The decline of the Revolutionary movement -- Tea revives the dispute -- The Coercive Acts -- The Continental Congress -- Lexington and its aftermath -- The empire in the balance -- The movement toward independence -- The declaration of independence -- The American Revolution as a democratic movement.
Details the ideological, political and economic causes of the War of Independence