Table of Contents
Preface: Why 1775 vii
List of Maps xxv
Part I Introduction
Chapter 1 The Spirit of 1775 3
Part II The Revolution-Provocations, Motivations, and Alignments
Chapter 2 Liberty's Vanguard 37
Chapter 3 Religion, Ethnicity, and Revolutionary Loyalty 67
Chapter 4 A Revolution for Economic Self-Determination 91
Chapter 5 Urban Radicalism and the Tide of Revolution 132
Chapter 6 Challenge from the Backcountry 164
Chapter 7 The Ideologies of Revolution 195
Part III 1775-The Battlegrounds
Chapter 8 Fortress New England? 225
Chapter 9 Declaring Economic War 249
Chapter 10 Five Roads to Canada 272
Chapter 11 The Global Munitions Struggle, 1774-1776 295
Chapter 12 The Supply War at Sea 314
Chapter 13 The First British Southern Strategy, 1775-1776 331
Chapter 14 Is Falmouth Burning? 343
Chapter 15 Red, White, and Black 357
Chapter 16 Divided National Opinion and Britain's Need to Hire Mercenaries 378
Chapter 17 The Chesapeake-America's Vulnerable Estuary 394
Chapter 18 The American Revolution as a Civil War 414
Chapter 19 The Declaration of Independence-a Stitch in Time? 431
Part IV Consequences and Ramifications
Chapter 20 The Battle of Boston: A Great American Victory 447
Chapter 21 Canada: Defeat or Victory? 461
Chapter 22 Lord Dunmore's Second War 477
Chapter 23 Whaleboats, Row Galleys, Schooners, and Submarines: The Small-Ship Origins of the U.S. Navy 492
Chapter 24 Europe, the Bourbon Compact, and the American Revolution 506
Chapter 25 The Southern Expedition of 1775 and the Limitations of British Power 522
Chapter 26 1775: A Good Year for Revolution 539
Acknowledgments 547
Notes 551
Bibliography 593
Index 605