Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
Whirlwind
The American Revolution and the War That Won It
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Amid a great collection of scholarship and narrative history on the Revolutionary War and the American struggle for independence, there is a gaping hole; one that John Ferling's latest book, Whirlwind, will fill. Books chronicling the Revolution have largely ranged from multivolume tomes that appeal...
The Idea of America
Reflections on the Birth of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history.
More than almost any other nation in the world, the United States began as an idea. For this reason, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood believes that the American...
by William Nester
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
From 1789 to 1800, the Federalist and Republican parties held opposing visions for America’s future. Led by Alexander Hamilton, the Federalists sought to establish a strong central government that would lead an American commercial, financial, technological, industrial, and military revolution, and...
The Adams-Jefferson Letters
The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
An intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America, the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion, quotidiana, and family griefs and joys. First meeting as delegates to the Continental Congress in 1775,...
To Be Useful to the World
Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Offering an interpretation of the Revolutionary period that places women at the center, Joan R. Gundersen provides a synthesis of the scholarship on women's experiences during the era as well as a nuanced understanding that moves beyond a view of the war as either a "golden age" or a disaster...
by Annette Gordon-Reed
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “[A] commanding and important book.”—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker
This epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Drawn from letters, diaries, newspaper articles, public declarations, contemporary narratives, and private memoranda, The American Revolution brings together over 120 pieces by more than 70 participants to create a unique literary panorama of the War of Independence. From Paul Revere's own narrative...
by Edwin S. Grosvenor
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
There is only one New York. It didn't make America, but it made possible the America we've come to know. Here - from American Heritage magazine and such historians as Nathaniel Benchley, David McCullough, and William V. Shannon - is its remarkable story: from Henry Hudson's historic voyage and the...
America's Three Regimes
A New Political History
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the single best book written in recent years on the sweep of American political history," this groundbreaking work divides our nation's history into three "regimes," each of which lasts many, many decades, allowing us to appreciate as...
As If an Enemy's Country
The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
In the dramatic period leading to the American Revolution, no event did more to foment patriotic sentiment among colonists than the armed occupation of Boston by British soldiers. As If an Enemy's Country is Richard Archer's gripping narrative of those critical months between October 1, 1768 and the...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
For the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, acclaimed historian Gordon S. Wood presents a landmark collection of British and American pamphlets from the political debate that divided an empire and created a nation: In 1764, in the wake of its triumph in the Seven Years War,...
by Milad Doroudian
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
The American experiment has shown the world that freedom, and above all the pursuit of happiness have not always been pristine roads, rather ones of turbulence and immense complexity. From the Colonial period, up to the so called "Gilded Age" the American people suffered through the persecutions...
An Anxious Pursuit
Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial Lower South. She focuses particularly on the influence of Scottish notions of progress, tracing the extent to which planters in South Carolina,...
by Sharon Block
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based.
Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implications of more...