Noble Cause: American Revolution 1763-1789

Robert Middalkuf"s book was published in the US Oxford History series, where everyone is dedicated to a certain period. "Glorious business" combines academic severity with alive and attractive style. The author, making a large-scale review of the American revolution, revises and spreads the boundaries of popular ideas about this period, analyzing the diplomatic and economic origins of the war, its driving forces and the course of military campaigns, contradictory aspirations of fatigursors, hot discussions accompanying every turning point of the American revolution. Transform the results of special studies into a convincing and fascinating story - the highest art (and even debt) of the historian, and Professor Middalkuf owns them in perfection