Date of Award

1924

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

History

First Advisor

Patrick J. Lomasney

Second Advisor

John Danihy

Abstract

A searching inquiry into the causes of the American Revolution, a study simply of what led the heretofore passive colonists to open revolt against the mother country, is apt to produce results which in themselves may appear revolutionary. Such a candid examination will make both tyrannical king and parliament and idealistic American patriots disappear, for in no war has either friend or fee been entirely in the right. In the past American historians have devoted page after page to discussing the Revolution, and with few exceptions, these accounts have been greatly to the glory of the brave and high minded colonists who are described as rebelling against injustice. No other view is commonly pictured. The popular conception of the Revolution is that it was a death struggle between corruption and idealism, with all the corruption emanating from the English king and parliament.

Comments

A Thesis to fulfill requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, College of Journalism, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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