Prelude to Independence: The Newspaper War on Britain, 1764-1776

by Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.

First edition, a review copy with slip. xiv, ii , 318, 16, 2 pages. stiff paper wrappers. small 8vo..

Genres: American Revolution, History

349 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1958

About the author

Arthur Meier Schlesinger was an American historian who taught at Harvard University, pioneering social history and urban history. He was a Progressive Era intellectual who stressed material causes (such as economic profit and conflict between businessmen and farmers) and downplayed ideology and values as motivations for historical actors. He was highly influential as a director of PhD dissertations at Harvard for three decades, especially in the fields of social, women's, and immigration history. His son, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007), also taught at Harvard and was a noted historian.