![]() ![]() ![]() Brutal guerrilla violence flared all along the frontier from New York to the Carolinas, fed by internal divisions as well as the clash with Britain. ![]() When war erupted, Patriot crowds harassed Loyalists and nonpartisans into compliance with their cause. Conflict ignited on the frontier, where settlers clamored to push west into Indian lands against British restrictions, and in the seaboard cities, where commercial elites mobilized riots and boycotts to resist British tax policies. Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, Taylor's Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain's mainland colonies, fueled by local conditions, destructive, hard to quell. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding. Object Details author Taylor, Alan 1955- Contents Colonies - Land - Slaves - Rebels - Allies - Loyalties - Wests - Oceans - Shocks - Republics - Partisans - Legacies Summary "The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art. ![]()
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