The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89, Fourth Edition
With a new Foreword by Joseph J. Ellis and an Essay by Rosemarie Zagarri
In The Birth of the Republic, 1763–89, 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 Republic is 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.
1. The Americans and the Empire
2. Sugar and Stamps, 1764–66
3. Peace without Honor, 1766–68
4. Troops and Tea, 1768–74
5. Equal Rights, 1774–76
6. War and Peace, 1776–83
7. The Independent States
8. The Independent Nation, 1776–81
9. “The Critical Period”
10. The Constitutional Convention
11. Ratification
The Declaration of Independence
The Articles of Confederation
The Constitution of the United States
The Bill of Rights
Important Dates
History: American History
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