These eight original essays by a group of America's most distinguished scholars include the following themes: the meaning and significance of the Revolution; the long-term, underlying causes of the war; violence and the Revolution; the military conflict; politics in the Continental Congress; the role of religion in the Revolution; and the effect of the war on the social order. This is the product of the celebrated Symposium on the American Revolution held in 1971 by the institute.
Originally published 1973.
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Contributors:
Bernard Bailyn
Rowland Berthoff
Richard Maxwell Brown
Jack P. Greene
H. James Henderson
William G. McLoughlin
John M. Murrin
Edmund S. Morgan
John Shy
