The Superb Trigger: The American Revolution: 1763-1789

The primary ebook to seem within the illustrious Oxford Historical past of the USA, this critically-acclaimed quantity – a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize – provides an unsurpassed historical past of the Revolutionary Conflict and the start of the American republic.

This panoramic view of the battle between England and America combines the political and the private, giving the listener a vivid sense of how the colonists perceived the occasions of their wrestle for independence, from the French and Indian Conflict to “the shot heard around the world”, and the significance the colonists assigned to them.

Praised as “state-of-the-art” and “probably the most distinguished sequence in American historic scholarship”, the 4 new volumes of the Oxford Historical past of the USA – together with The Superb Trigger – are narrated with engagingly informal heat by Robert Fass, who beforehand learn an earlier quantity within the sequence, Empire of Liberty, by Gordon S. Wooden.

Please notice: The person volumes of the sequence haven’t been revealed in historic order. The Superb Trigger is quantity III in The Oxford Historical past of the USA.