"The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic." "This new edition has been revised and expanded, with fresh coverage of topics such as mob reactions to British measures before the War, military medicine, women's role in the Revolution, American Indians, the different kinds of war fought by the Americans and the British, and the ratification of the Constitution. It includes a new epilogue and an updated bibliography."--Jacket.

Includes maps of: British North America; Boston Area - Bunker Hill; Quebec Theater; Long Island; Manhattan and White Plains; New York to Philadelphia; Trenton and Princeton; Upper New York; Bemis Heights; Brandywine and Germantown; Monmouth Court House; Southern Campaigns; Siege of Charleston; Camden; King's Mountain; Cowpens; Guilford Court House; Hobkirk's Hill; Eutaw Springs; Siege of Yorktown. Includes index.

Prologue: Sustaining truths -- Obstructed giant -- Children of the twice-born -- Beginnings: from the top down -- Stamp Act crisis -- Response -- Selden's penny -- Chance and Charles Townshend -- Boston takes the lead -- "Bastards of England" -- Drift -- Resolution -- War -- "Half a war" -- Independence -- War of posts -- War of maneuver -- Revolution becomes a European war -- War in the South -- "Fugitive war" -- Inside the campaigns -- Outside the campaigns -- Yorktown and Paris -- Constitutional movement -- Children of the twice-born in the 1780s -- Constitutional Convention -- Ratification: an end and a beginning -- Epilogue: Enduring truths.