However, the war came at a great cost, and the Empire levels a series of taxes and policies on its subjects in the American colonies to help pay for the expenses. Great Britain comes out of the war the undisputed master of North America and an incredible naval power. The book begins with the end of the French and Indian War, of which Britain and her allies were victorious. Rather than focus solely on the years of the American Revolutionary War, Middlekauff asserts that the revolution really started in the 1760s. The book was nominated for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for History. Published in 1982 with a second edition in 2005, The Glorious Cause is one of the early entries in the Oxford History of the United States, an ongoing series of narrative history books chronicling the history of the United States published by Oxford University Press. The Glorious Cause by Robert Middlekauff is a nonfiction summation of the American Revolution, starting at its origins in 1763 and continuing to the election of George Washington as the first president in 1789.
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