A Mighty Empire

by Egnal M and Marc Egnal

Book Overview

First published in 1988, Marc Egnal's now classic revisionist history of the origins of the American Revolution, focuses on five colonies--Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina--from 1700 to the post-Revolutionary era. Egnal asserts that throughout colonial America the struggle against Great Britain was led by an upper-class faction motivated by a vision of the rapid development of the New World.

In each colony...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801419328
• ISBN13: 9780801419324
• Release Date: February 1988
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher