Edmund Morgan Birth Of The Republic Summary
Edmund S. Morgan, the Birth of the Republic 1763-89. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1956. 156 pp.
The Birth of the Republic by Edmund Morgan gives many reasons for the American Revolution but the main thesis in the book is the search for principles. Morgan chooses to discuss the political issues instead of military aspects. The book discusses how the colonies were initially set up, through the war, and ending at the establishment of America as an independent country all surrounding our continuous search for principles.
The British were in a lot of debt from the Seven Years War. Their solution was to tax the colonies and restrict their trade with things like the Sugar Act and Stamp act. This displeased the Americans because it was very costly for them and they had no representation in parliament. The colonist wanted to have real representation and not virtual. The British ended up changing repealing the acts but only to replace it with the Declatory Act which gave them the right to enforce any legislation. This outraged the colonists but the British moved troops in the colonies. Then the British took over the whole industry which meant the colonists had to pay Britain to get tea which made them very mad. So they began …show more content…
It gave a good synopsis of the events that lead up to the revolution and eventually American independence. This book was also persuasive because it gave enough facts to back up any claims he made. But it was also very biased in for some reasons. "They were a rapacious band of bureaucrats who brought to their task an irrepressible greed and a vindictive malice that could not fail to aggravate the antagonism not only against themselves but also against the Parliament that sent them. Customs officers in America had always been a bad lot.(37) Here instead of simply listing facts he chooses on side and bashes the
The Birth of the Republic by Edmund Morgan gives many reasons for the American Revolution but the main thesis in the book is the search for principles. Morgan chooses to discuss the political issues instead of military aspects. The book discusses how the colonies were initially set up, through the war, and ending at the establishment of America as an independent country all surrounding our continuous search for principles.
The British were in a lot of debt from the Seven Years War. Their solution was to tax the colonies and restrict their trade with things like the Sugar Act and Stamp act. This displeased the Americans because it was very costly for them and they had no representation in parliament. The colonist wanted to have real representation and not virtual. The British ended up changing repealing the acts but only to replace it with the Declatory Act which gave them the right to enforce any legislation. This outraged the colonists but the British moved troops in the colonies. Then the British took over the whole industry which meant the colonists had to pay Britain to get tea which made them very mad. So they began …show more content…
It gave a good synopsis of the events that lead up to the revolution and eventually American independence. This book was also persuasive because it gave enough facts to back up any claims he made. But it was also very biased in for some reasons. "They were a rapacious band of bureaucrats who brought to their task an irrepressible greed and a vindictive malice that could not fail to aggravate the antagonism not only against themselves but also against the Parliament that sent them. Customs officers in America had always been a bad lot.(37) Here instead of simply listing facts he chooses on side and bashes the