Books by Edmund Morgan
“I love the architecture of this book. He interlaces a chapter about politics, about what’s happening in Parliament and what the King is up to, with chapters about how ordinary Americans’ lives were transformed because of the decisions you read about in the previous chapter. This back and forth between high politics and local response is creative genius. The Stamp Act Crisis is a model for what great historical writing can be.” Read more...
The Best Books on the American Revolution
T.H. Breen, Historian
Interviews where books by Edmund Morgan were recommended
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The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution
by Edmund Morgan & Helen Morgan -
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The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence
by T.H. Breen -
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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
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The Radicalism of the American Revolution
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The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America
by T.H. Breen
The Best Books on the American Revolution, recommended by T.H. Breen
The Best Books on the American Revolution, recommended by T.H. Breen
The American Revolution began as a war for independence but, by its end, the war had transformed the thirteen colonies into a republic. Historian T.H. Breen recommends the best books which relay the revolutionary impact of the American War of Independence.
