![]() The military aspect is rushed, but adequate.I appreciate the pains Middlekauff took to frame the political and cultural context on both sides of the Atlantic. The political context is very well framed, and any American who still thinks of the Revolutionary War in cartoonish shades of black and white will be set right, if he reads this book.Middlekauff takes the reader into the halls of Parliament and into the homes of colonists in New England, the middle colonies, and the South. Each volume is written by a distinguished, responsible historian at the height of his powers. This book is part of the esteemed Oxford History of the United States series, and it lives up to its billing. It ends with the Constitutional Convention, in 1787, and the ratification of the new Constitution shortly afterwards. ![]() ![]() ![]() It picks up in the heady days immediately after the French and Indian War (also known as the Seven Years War), when a cash-strapped Britain decided it needed some additional revenue to pay off debt accumulated during the late war. Robert Middlekauff’s tome, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution 1763 – 1789, is a worthy overview of the Revolutionary-War era. ![]()
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