Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
Unbecoming British : How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation
How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
What can homespun cloth, stuffed birds, quince jelly, and ginseng reveal about the formation of early American national identity? In this wide-ranging and bold new interpretation of American history and its Founding Fathers, Kariann Akemi Yokota shows that political independence from Britain fueled...
Revolutionary Backlash
Women and Politics in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash argues otherwise. According to Rosemarie Zagarri, the debate over women's rights began not in the decades prior to 1848 but during the American Revolution...
This Glorious Struggle
George Washington's Revolutionary War Letters
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
George Washington wrote an astonishing number of letters, both personal and professional. The majority—about 140,000 documents—are from his years as commander in chief during the Revolutionary War, from 1775 to 1783. This Glorious Struggle presents a selection of Washington's most important and...
A Revolutionary People At War
The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In this highly acclaimed book, Charles Royster explores the mental processes and emotional crises that Americans faced in their first national war. He ranges imaginatively outside the traditional techniques of analytical historical exposition to build his portrait of how individuals and a populace...
Benedict Arnold in the Company of Heroes
The Lives of the Extraordinary Patriots Who Followed Arnold to Canada at the Start of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
This “gripping” history recounts the lives of American patriots who were a part of Arnold’s failed Canadian invasion during the Revolutionary War (Thomas Fleming, author of Liberty! The American Revolution).
Hundreds of men followed Col. Benedict Arnold in an expedition to capture Quebec...
by Jennifer L. Goloboy
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Too often, says Jennifer L. Goloboy, we equate being middle class with “niceness”—a set of values frozen in the antebellum period and centered on long-term economic and social progress and a close, nurturing family life. Goloboy’s case study of merchants in Charleston, South Carolina, looks...
by Steven E. Siry
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
From June 1775 to February 1781, during the American War of Independence, ten patriot generals died as a result of combat wounds. Their service and deaths spanned most of the warÆs duration and geographical expanse. The generals were a diverse group, with six born in America and four in Europe, three...
Whispers Across the Atlantick
General William Howe and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
General William Howe was the commander-in-chief of the British forces during the early campaigns of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Howe evoked passionate reactions in the people he worked with – his men loved him, his second-in-command detested him, his enemies feared him, his political...
by Louis B. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2019
If the origin of the colonial period was accidental, the ending was not. The representatives of the thirteen colonies who approved the Declaration of Independence in 1776 charted a collision course, aware of the obstacles in their path and the risks they were taking. The events that led to their decision...
An Empire on the Edge
How Britain Came to Fight America
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Written from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but nobody could prevent.
In this powerful but fair-minded...
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2019
"Written with skill and suspense, it is an inspiring story that Americans can read with pride." - Chicago Tribune. Here, from New York Times bestselling author Thomas Fleming, is the story of that June day in 1775 that made the American Revolution inevitable. Bunker Hill brings alive the...
Siblings
Brothers and Sisters in American History
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Brothers and sisters are so much a part of our lives that we can overlook their importance. Even scholars of the family tend to forget siblings, focusing instead on marriage and parent-child relations. Based on a wealth of family papers, period images, and popular literature, this is the first book...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
*Discusses the myths and legends of the Tea Party in an attempt to separate fact from fiction. Did the Tea Partiers dress up as Mohawks? Did Sam Adams lead the Tea Party?*Includes contemporary accounts of the Tea Party in the newspapers and accounts written by those claiming to have participated. *Discusses...
A Magnificent Catastrophe
The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
"They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election—an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American democracy...