The Eve of the Revolution; A Chronicle of the Breach with EnglandBecker, Carl L. (Carl Lotus)
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The Eve of the Revolution; A Chronicle of the Breach with England
Becker, Carl L. (Carl Lotus)
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783
American Revolution, 3 vols. 1805 (author was a sister of James Otis);
W. Moultrie, Memoirs of the American Revolution so far as it Related
to North and South Carolina, 2 vols. 1802; J. Drayton, Memoirs of the
American Revolution, 2 vols. 1821; T. Jones, History of New York in the
Revolutionary War, 2 vols. 1879 (by a prominent New York Loyalist);
The Annual Register, 1765-1776 (an English annual giving summaries of
political events supposed to have been prepared by Edmund Burke); H.
Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George the Third, 4 vols. 1894.
Secondary Works: The best single volume on the Revolution is W. E. H.
Lecky, The American Revolution, 1912. Other good accounts: E. Charming,
History of the United States, vol. III, 1912; G. Howard, Preliminaries
of the American Revolution, 1905; S. G. Fisher, Struggle for American
Independence, 2 vols. 1908 (controverts many traditional ideas.
Interesting book by a man who has been bored by the laudation of the
heroic and patriotic side of the Revolution). Of the more detailed
histories, the best are: G. Bancroft, History of the United States, 10
vols. 1834-1874 (vols. V-VIII deal with the period 1765-1776. Strongly
prejudiced but accurate as to facts; based on documents collected in
European archives, some of which are not easily obtainable elsewhere.
Revised ed., 6 vols. 1885, omits notes and references, and therefore
not so valuable as the original edition); G. O. Trevelyan, The American
Revolution, 6 vols. 1899-1914 (brilliantly written by an Englishman of
Liberal sympathies. On the whole the work on the Revolution best worth
reading). Studies of the beginnings of the Revolution in particular
colonies: C. H. Lincoln, Revolutionary Movement in Pennsylvania, 1901;
H. J. Eckenrode, The Revolution in Virginia, 1916; C. L. Becker, History
of Political Parties in New York, 1760-1776, 1909. The best account of
the British policy leading up to the Grenville measures is G. L. Beer,
British Colonial Policy, 1754-1765, 1907. The interesting and important
subject of the Loyalists is sketched in C. H. Van Tyne, The Loyalists
of the American Revolution, 1902. Interesting biographies well worth
reading: W. W. Henry, Patrick Henry: Life, Correspondence, and Speeches,
3 vols. 1891; J. K. Hosmer, Life of Thomas Hutchinson, 1896; J. K.
Hosmer, Samuel Adams, 1893; M. Chamberlin, John Adams, 1884; C. J.
Stillé, The Life and Times of John Dickinson, 1891; D. D. Wallace, Life
of Henry Laurens, 1915; P. L. Ford, The Many-Sided Franklin, 1899; J.
Parton, Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, 2 vols. 1867.
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