Birth of the Republic, 1763-89, Fourth Edition

by Morgan, Edmund S.; Ellis, Joseph J.

• ISBN13: 9780226923420
• ISBN10: 0226923428
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-11-29
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

In The Birth of the Republic, 176389, Edmund S. Morgan shows how the challenge of British taxation started Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom, and eventually led to the Revolution. By demonstrating that the founding fathers' political philosophy was not grounded in theory, but rather grew out of their own immediate needs, Morgan paints a vivid portrait of how the founders' own experiences shaped their passionate convictions, and these in turn were incorporated into the Constitution and other governmental documents. The Birth of the Republicis the classic account of the beginnings of the American government, and in this fourth edition the original text is supplemented with a new foreword by Joseph J. Ellis and a historiographic essay by Rosemarie Zagarri.

Author Biography

Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and past president of the Organization of American Historians.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Fourth Edition	p. ix
Preface to the Third Edition	p. xiii
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xiv
Lexington Green	p. 1
The Americans and the Empire	p. 5
Sugar and Stamps, 1764-66	p. 15
Peace without Honor, 1766-68	p. 29
Troops and Tea, 1768-74	p. 43
Equal Rights, 1774-76	p. 61
War and Peace, 1776-83	p. 77
The Independent States	p. 88
The Independent Nation, 1776-81	p. 101
"The Critical Period"	p. 113
The Constitutional Convention	p. 129
Ratification	p. 145
The Declaration of Independence	p. 159
The Articles of Confederation	p. 163
The Constitution of the United States	p. 171
The Bill of Rights	p. 183
Bibliographical Note	p. 185
Scholarship on the American Revolution since The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89	p. 193
Important Dates	p. 211
Index	p. 215
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