{"product_id":"independence-the-tangled-roots-of-the-american-revolution-paperback","title":"Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas P. Slaughter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn important new interpretation of the American colonists' 150-year struggle to achieve independence\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat do we mean by the Revolution? John Adams asked Thomas Jefferson in 1815. The war? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an effect and consequence of it. As the distinguished historian Thomas P. Slaughter shows in this landmark history, the roots of the Revolution went back even further than Adams may have realized.\u003cbr\u003e In Slaughter's account, colonists in British North America starting in the early seventeenth century chafed under imperial rule. Though successive British kings called them lawless, they insisted on their moral courage and political principles, and regarded their independence as a great virtue. Their struggles to define this independence took many forms: from New England and Nova Scotia to New York and Pennsylvania and south to the Carolinas, colonists resisted unsympathetic royal governors, smuggled to evade British duties, and organized for armed uprisings.\u003cbr\u003e In the eighteenth century--especially after victories over France--the British were eager to crush these rebellions, but American opposition only intensified. In \u003ci\u003eIndependence\u003c\/i\u003e, Slaughter resets and clarifies the terms of this remarkable development, showing how and why a critical mass of colonists determined that they could not be both independent \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e subject to the British Crown. By 1775-76, they had become revolutionaries--willing to go to war to\u003ci\u003e defend\u003c\/i\u003e their independence, not simply to gain it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas P. Slaughter\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition\u003c\/i\u003e (Hill and Wang, 2008) and four other books. He is the Arthur R. Miller Professor at the University of Rochester and the editor of \u003ci\u003eReviews in American History.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 512\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 09, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52617732129075,"sku":"9780809058358","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/TDRJdzhrbWoxY1dQTmRVK01Dd1Rqdz09.webp?v=1761893753","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/independence-the-tangled-roots-of-the-american-revolution-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}