Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Chaplains of the Revolutionary War
Black Robed American Warriors
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
“There is a time to preach and a time to fight. And now is the time to fight.” With those words, the Rev. John Muhlenberg stepped from his pulpit, removed his clerical robe—revealing the uniform of a Colonial officer—and marched off to war. Many of the ministers who became chaplains in the...
It Happened in the Revolutionary War
Stories of Events and People that Shaped American History
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
From the never-ending controversy over the Boston Massacre to the world’s first working (sort of) submarine, It Happened in the Revolutionary War looks at intriguing people and episodes that shaped the course of the war.
Meet Banistre Tarlton, a ruthless British commander who showed no mercy,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The Continental Congress and General Washington mistakenly inflated the importance of New York City to the cause of the revolution. After racing to beat the British to New York, Washington...
The Traumatic Colonel
The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
In American political fantasy, the Founding Fathers loom large, at once historical and mythical figures. In The Traumatic Colonel, Michael J. Drexler and Ed White examine the Founders as imaginative fictions, characters in the specifically literary sense, whose significance emerged from narrative...
THE RUSSIAN TRAGEDY
THE RUSSIAN TRAGEDY, THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY, THE KRONSTADT REBELLION
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
THE PAMPHLETS, ISSUED HERE in book form for the first time (The Russian Tragedy, The Russian Revolution and the Communist Party, The Kronstadt Rebellion), are Alexander Berkman’s first writings after leaving Russia in December of 1921. He had entered Russia just two years earlier, filled with...
by William Heath
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
First published in 1798, this Revolutionary War memoir is one of the few ever written by a senior Continental Army commander. It provides a unique glimpse into the administrative operations and inner workings of the army during the American Revolution. Major General William Heath offers rare insights...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This paper analyzes the political and military effectiveness of the Rhode Island militia during the Revolutionary War. Through careful study of the roots of Rhode Island and its militia forces,...
Revolutionary Constitutions
Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Offering insights into the origins, successes, and threats to revolutionary constitutionalism, Bruce Ackerman takes us to India, South Africa, Italy, France, Poland, Burma, Israel, Iran, and the U.S. and provides a blow-by-blow account of the tribulations that confronted popular movements in their insurgent campaigns for constitutional democracy.
by Lillian Guerra
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A leading scholar sheds light on the experiences of ordinary Cubans in the unseating of the dictator Fulgencio Batista
In this important and timely volume, one of today’s foremost experts on Cuban history and politics fills a significant gap in the literature, illuminating how Cuba’s electoral...
by Henry Bourne
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
THE close of the Seven Years' War brought only a lull in the great conflicts of the eighteenth century, and yet for a time men seemed less influenced by dynastic quarrels, and their attention was centered upon questions of social and political reconstruction....
Don Troiani's Campaign to Saratoga - 1777
The Turning Point of the Revolutionary War in Paintings, Artifacts, and Historical Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019
The Battles of Saratoga are cited as the turning point in the Revolutionary War. Beginning when the armies prepared to face off in June 1777 through the surrender of the British Army in October, the battles of the Northern Campaign were significant to the outcome of the War and the fight for independence....
by Henry Bourne
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
THE close of the Seven Years' War brought only a lull in the great conflicts of the eighteenth century, and yet for a time men seemed less influenced by dynastic quarrels, and their attention was centered upon questions of social and political reconstruction. The policies of rulers were affected by...
by Stephen Condit
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Few historians of ideas have questioned Proudhon’s impact in his own time. Yet his affinities with and contributions to some of the most important trends in modern political philosophy, and his relevance to the problems which increasingly reveal the failures of existing political doctrines and systems,...
Washington
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
A gripping portrait of the first president of the United States from the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical.
Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president...