The Revolution of America - Brossura

Raynal, Abbé

 
9781108031905: The Revolution of America

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Raynal's 1781 account of the American Revolution offers a solid explanation for its causes and intriguing speculation on the outcome.

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Descrizione del libro

Published before the outcome of the conflict was known, this account of the American Revolution by the Abbé Raynal (1713–69) was first published in English in 1781. It is taken from the last volume of his influential Philosophy and Political History of the East and West Indies.

Contenuti

Advertisement; 1. Distressed state of England in 1763; 2. England calls her colonies to her aid; 3. England exacts from her colonies what she should but have requested; 4. After having given way, England would be obeyed by her colonies. Measures which they take to resist her; 5. The colonies were in the right to separate themselves from their mother-country, independently of all discontent; 6. What was the part which England should have taken, when she saw the fermentation of her colonies; 7. England determines to reduce her colonies by force; 8. The colonies break the ties which united them to England, and declare themselves independent of her; 9. Commencement of the war between the United States and England; 10. Why the confederate provinces did not succeed in driving the English from the continent of America; 11. France acknowledges the independence of the United States. This measure occasions war between this crown and that of England; 12. Spain, not having succeeded in reconciling England and France, declares for the latter power; 13. What ought to be the politics of the House of Bourbon, if victorious; 14. What idea should be formed of the thirteen united provinces.

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