The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
by Gordon S. Wood |
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
by Bernard Bailyn |
The Glorious Cause
by Robert Middlekauff |
"A Few Bloody Noses"
by Robert Harvey |
The Marketplace of Revolution
by T. H. Breen |
American Spring
by Walter R. Borneman | 
American Insurgents, American Patriots
by T. H. Breen | 
The Perils of Peace
by Thomas Fleming |
A Leap in the Dark
by John Ferling |
Liberty!
by Thomas Fleming |
Patriots
by A. J. Langguth |
The Stamp Act Crisis
by Edmund S. Morgan |
The Long Fuse
by Don Cook | 
To Begin the World Anew
by Bernard Bailyn |
Redcoats and Rebels
by Christopher Hibbert | 
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 |
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.