Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
Voyagers to the West
A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Saloutos Prize of the Immigration History Society
Bailyn's Pulitzer Prize-winning book uses an emigration roster that lists every person officially known to have left Britain for America from December 1773 to March 1776 to reconstruct the lives and motives...
by R.B. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Here is a concise scholarly yet accessible overview of the brilliant flawed and quarrelsome group of lawyers politicians merchants military men and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history...
Founding Finance
How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Recent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax "constitutional conservatism" lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America's founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic clashes over finance and economics that marked the founding of America? Dissenting from both...
Almost a Miracle:The American Victory in the War of Independence
The American Victory in the War of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2007
In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports readers to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication. As Ferling demonstrates, it was...
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
* Contains thousands of pages of Hamiltons writings, including classic American documents such as the Federalist Papers, the Constitution, and the Articles of Confederation. *Includes all of Hamiltons personal correspondence, including hundreds of letters and speeches. * Illustrated with over a dozen...
by Michael Kammen
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
During the twenty years before the American Revolution, thirty-seven men acted as paid agent or lobbyists for the American colonies in England. The most famous among them were Benjamin Franklin, who represented four different colonies and served for seventeen years as agenet for Pennsylvania, and...
Religion and Profit
Moravians in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The Moravians, a Protestant sect founded in 1727 by Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf and based in Germany, were key players in the rise of international evangelicalism. In 1741, after planting communities on the frontiers of empires throughout the Atlantic world, they settled the communitarian...
Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom
Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Landon Carter, a Virginia planter, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this astonishingly rich biography, Isaac mines this remarkable document--and many other sources--to reconstruct Carter's interior world as it plunged into revolution. The aging patriarch, though a...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this military study posits that the leadership of Major General Edward Braddock led to the defeat of the force that he recruited, trained, and led against Fort Duquesne in July 1755. This thesis places Braddock into the...
George Washington
The Wonder of the Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
A much-needed concise biography of America’s first president As editor of the award-winning Library of America collection of George Washington’s writings and a curator of the great man’s original papers, John Rhodehamel has established himself as an authority of our nation’s preeminent founding...
by Alexander Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
Unfortunately, one of the best known aspects of Alexander Hamilton’s (1755-1804) life is the manner in which he died, being shot and killed in a famous duel with Aaron Burr in 1804. But Hamilton became one of the most instrumental Founding Fathers of the United States in that time, not only in helping...
To Lead As Equals
Rural Protest and Political Consciousness in Chinandega, Nicaragua, 1912-1979
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This book is a carefully argued study of peasants and labor during the Somoza regime, focusing on popular movements in the economically strategic department of Chinandega in western Nicaragua. Jeffrey Gould traces the evolution of group consciousness among peasants and workers as they moved away from...
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Unfortunately, one of the best known aspects of Alexander Hamiltons (1755-1804) life is the manner in which he died, being shot and killed in a famous duel with Aaron Burr in 1804. But Hamilton became one of the most instrumental Founding Fathers of the United States in that time, not only in helping...