A Mighty Empire by Marc Egnal PAPERBACK 9780801476587

A Mighty Empire\nby Marc Egnal\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Marc Egnal\nTitle: A Mighty Empire\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Local history\nPublisher: MB - Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2010\nISBN-13: 9780801476587\nISBN-10: 0801476585\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nFirst published in 1988, Marc Egnal''s now classic revisionist history of the origins of the American Revolution, focuses on five coloniesMassachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolinafrom 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 the membership of this group, which Egnal calls the.