Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Sing a Battle Song
The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-1974
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, a group of young American radicals announced their intention to "bring the war home." The Weather Underground waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the 1970s, bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of...
Revolutionary Brotherhood
Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730-1840
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In the first comprehensive history of the fraternity known to outsiders primarily for its secrecy and rituals, Steven Bullock traces Freemasonry through its first century in America. He follows the order from its origins in Britain and its introduction into North America in the 1730s to its near-destruction...
Scandal and Civility
Journalism and the Birth of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
A new breed of journalists came to the fore in post-revolutionary America--fiercely partisan, highly ideological, and possessed of a bold sense of vocation and purpose as they entered the fray of political debate. Often condemned by latter-day historians and widely seen in their own time as a threat...
MUSEIFUSHUGI. The Revolutionary Idea in Japan
I — from the 6th Century to 1939
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
In 1957 Víctor García, considered by some to be the Marco Polo of the international anarchist movement (because of his extensive travels), visited Japan where he was welcomed by Taiji Yamaga, with whom he spent three months travelling to many cities and towns in the archipelago being...
Revolutionary Delaware
Independence in the First State
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
In 1776, Delaware declared independence from both England and Pennsylvania. Originally known as the Three Lower Counties of Pennsylvania, the First State was instrumental in the fight to form a new republic. The Marquis de Lafayette, Nathanael Greene and George Washington all made trips to the state....
Patriots and Indians
Shaping Identity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Patriots and Indians examines relationships between elite South Carolinians and Native Americans through the colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. Eighteenth-century South Carolinians interacted with Indians in business and diplomatic affairs, as enemies and allies during times of war...
Jacob Green’s Revolution
Radical Religion and Reform in a Revolutionary Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Part biography and part microhistory, Jacob Green’s Revolution focuses on two key figures in New Jersey’s revolutionary drama—Jacob Green, a radical Presbyterian minister who advocated revolution, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler, a conservative Anglican minister from Elizabeth Town who was a leading...
by Paul Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
One of the most famous revolutions in history, the American Revolution (1775-1783) was the political upheaval in which 13 distinct colonies in North America banded together to cast off British rule, forming the United States of America. After the shot heard round the world on April 19, 1775, at the Battle...
by Stephen Conway
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists' formal Declaration of Independence in 1776, the struggle has taken on something a mythic character, especially in the United States. From the Boston Tea...
Three Peoples, One King
Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the American Revolutionary South, 1775-1782
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Three Peoples, One King explores the contributions and conjoined fates of Loyalists, Indians, and slaves who stood with the British Empire in the Deep South colonies during the American Revolution. Challenging the traditional view that British efforts to regain control of the southern colonies were...
Standing in Their Own Light
African American Patriots in the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for the liberty of African Americans, thousands of whom fought in the Continental Army. Because these veterans left few letters or diaries, their story has...
Battle of Paoli
The Revolutionary War "Massacre" Near Philadelphia, September 1777
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
This first full-length treatment of the Revolutionary War battle of Paoli recounts the British surprise attack on a Continental Army division near Philadelphia in September 1777. A crushing defeat for the Americans, the battle became known as the "Paoli Massacre". Philadelphia fell to the...
Translating Anarchy
The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Translating Anarchy tells the story of the anti-capitalist anti-authoritarians of Occupy Wall Street who strategically communicated their revolutionary politics to the public in a way that was both accessible and revolutionary. By “translating” their ideas into everyday concepts like community empowerment...
A French Aristocrat in the American West
The Shattered Dreams of De Lassus De Luzières
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
In 1790, Pierre-Charles de Lassus de Luzières gathered his wife and children and fled Revolutionary France. His trek to America was prompted by his “purchase” of two thousand acres situated on the bank of the Ohio River from the Scioto Land Company—the institution that infamously swindled French...