Contains "more than nine hundred articles that together reveal the full richness of this complex event. All written by experts, these articles examine in detail the lives and contributions of the most prominent actors, the critical events and measures that led to resistance and revolution, the instruments of resistance, the process by which the public was mobilized for revolution, the campaigns and battles of the war that followed, the transformations of the colonies into republican states, the creation of a political union among them, and a wide assortment of other topics related to the context, causes, and results of the Revolution." Also includes a selection of primary source documents.