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Liberty is sweet : the hidden history of the American Revolution / Woody Holton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: 779 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781476750378
  • 1476750378
Other title:
  • Hidden history of the American Revolution
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Contents:
Words and boundaries -- Prologue: An invisible enemy -- Part one: The king's grievances. Awing and protecting the Indians (1763) -- The first American Revolution (1763) -- Confederacy of smugglers (1763-1764) -- Hungry caterpillars (1765) -- A hobnail or a horseshoe (1765-1766) -- Who should rule at home? (1766) -- From Bengal to Boston (1767-1768) -- Red flag over Boston (1768-1769) -- The music of the wheels (1769) -- Town born, turn out! (1770-1772) -- Cry for liberty (1772-1773) -- In the common cause (1774) -- The hindmost horse (1774-1775) -- Part two: Push on. Introduction -- Declare freedom (Early 1775) -- Pyramids of fire (Spring-Summer 1775) -- Instigated insurrections? (1775) -- Freedom hath been hunted (Early 1776) -- The mouse in the maze (Early 1776) -- Liberty further extended (Summer 1776) -- You never will have enough (Summer 1776) -- The game is pretty nearly up (Fall 1776) -- The price of revolution (Early 1777) -- Above all, horses (Summer 1777) -- Take no quarter (Fall 1777) -- The valley (Winter 1777-1778) -- Southern strategies (1778-1779) -- Dark days (1779-1780) -- Secret agency (1780) -- Had I crossed the river (1781) -- Nothing but a treaty (1781) -- Surrenders (1781-1782) -- To amend and perfect (1782-1783) -- Like old worn out horses (1782-1783) -- Part three: Roads opened, roads closed. Introduction -- A revolution in favor of government (1783-1788) -- An unseen enemy (1788-1793) -- Back to Braddock's field (1794-1795) -- Epilogue.
Summary: "A celebrated scholar's history of the American Revolution, from its origins to its aftermath, which emphasizes the contributions of groups usually omitted in this story: Native Americans, African Americans, and women"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A "deeply researched and bracing retelling" (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans--women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters.

Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet is a "spirited account" (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Radicalism of the American Revolution ) that explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers. "It is all one story," prizewinning historian Woody Holton writes.

Holton describes the origins and crucial battles of the Revolution from Lexington and Concord to the British surrender at Yorktown, always focusing on marginalized Americans--enslaved Africans and African Americans, Native Americans, women, and dissenters--and on overlooked factors such as weather, North America's unique geography, chance, misperception, attempts to manipulate public opinion, and (most of all) disease. Thousands of enslaved Americans exploited the chaos of war to obtain their own freedom, while others were given away as enlistment bounties to whites. Women provided material support for the troops, sewing clothes for soldiers and in some cases taking part in the fighting. Both sides courted native people and mimicked their tactics.

Liberty Is Sweet is a "must-read book for understanding the founding of our nation" (Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin ), from its origins on the frontiers and in the Atlantic ports to the creation of the Constitution. Offering surprises at every turn--for example, Holton makes a convincing case that Britain never had a chance of winning the war--this majestic history revivifies a story we thought we already knew.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 681-740) and index.

"A celebrated scholar's history of the American Revolution, from its origins to its aftermath, which emphasizes the contributions of groups usually omitted in this story: Native Americans, African Americans, and women"-- Provided by publisher.

Words and boundaries -- Prologue: An invisible enemy -- Part one: The king's grievances. Awing and protecting the Indians (1763) -- The first American Revolution (1763) -- Confederacy of smugglers (1763-1764) -- Hungry caterpillars (1765) -- A hobnail or a horseshoe (1765-1766) -- Who should rule at home? (1766) -- From Bengal to Boston (1767-1768) -- Red flag over Boston (1768-1769) -- The music of the wheels (1769) -- Town born, turn out! (1770-1772) -- Cry for liberty (1772-1773) -- In the common cause (1774) -- The hindmost horse (1774-1775) -- Part two: Push on. Introduction -- Declare freedom (Early 1775) -- Pyramids of fire (Spring-Summer 1775) -- Instigated insurrections? (1775) -- Freedom hath been hunted (Early 1776) -- The mouse in the maze (Early 1776) -- Liberty further extended (Summer 1776) -- You never will have enough (Summer 1776) -- The game is pretty nearly up (Fall 1776) -- The price of revolution (Early 1777) -- Above all, horses (Summer 1777) -- Take no quarter (Fall 1777) -- The valley (Winter 1777-1778) -- Southern strategies (1778-1779) -- Dark days (1779-1780) -- Secret agency (1780) -- Had I crossed the river (1781) -- Nothing but a treaty (1781) -- Surrenders (1781-1782) -- To amend and perfect (1782-1783) -- Like old worn out horses (1782-1783) -- Part three: Roads opened, roads closed. Introduction -- A revolution in favor of government (1783-1788) -- An unseen enemy (1788-1793) -- Back to Braddock's field (1794-1795) -- Epilogue.

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