Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
First Lady of Letters
Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Female Independence
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820), poet, essayist, playwright, and one of the most thoroughgoing advocates of women's rights in early America, was as well known in her own day as Abigail Adams or Martha Washington. Her name, though, has virtually disappeared from the public consciousness. Thanks to...
The Expanding Blaze
How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the Americas
The Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....
A Few Lawless Vagabonds
Ethan Allen, the Republic of Vermont, and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
A Few Lawless Vagabondsis an account of the three-way relationship between Ethan Allen, the Republic of Vermont (1777–1791) and the British in Canada during the American Revolution, a work of political and military history. Ethan Allen was a prime mover in the establishment of the Republic (though...
The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society
War and Society in the United States, 1775-83
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The War fo Independence had a substantial impact on the lives of all Americans, establishing a nation and confirming American identity. The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society focuses on a conflict which was both civil war and revolution and assesses how Americans met the...
Pox Americana
The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
The astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its birth
A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the American Revolution began, and yet we know almost nothing about it. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the first historian to...
Notes on the State of Virginia
A Compilation of Data About the State's Natural Resources, Economy and the Nature of the Good Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
"Notes on the State of Virginia" is the only full-length book which Jefferson published during his lifetime. Widely considered the most important American book published before 1800, this book is both a compilation of data by Jefferson about the state's natural resources and economy, and...
by Thomas Paine
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
In 1775, the American colonies were a hotbed of political discord. Many of the British policies, specifically taxes, had caused American colonial leaders to consider the unthinkable: declaring independence from the British Empire and its King George. One such leader, Thomas Jefferson, wrote Common...
by Sam Willis
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
A fascinating naval perspective on one of the greatest of all historical conundrums: How did thirteen isolated colonies, which in 1775 began a war with Britain without a navy or an army, win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on earth?
The American Revolution involved...
Man of War
The Fighting Life of Admiral James Saumarez: From The American Revolution to the Defeat of Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The career of Guernsey-born Admiral James Saumarez reads like an early history of the Royal Navy. His first battle was against the American revolutionaries in 1775, but thereafter his main opponents were the French and the Spanish, and the first fighting ship he commanded, the eight-gun galley Spitfire,...
Ethan Allen & the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
America's First Victory
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
In April 1775, a small band of men set out from Hartford and traveled swiftly north toward the shore of Lake Champlain, recruiting men to their expedition along the way. Within only a few days, this loyal group of volunteers arrived in Vermont and, joining forces with Ethan Allen and his legendary Green...
American Sanctuary
Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
From “one of the most wide-ranging and imaginative historians in America today; there is no one else quite like him in the profession” (Gordon S. Wood)—a dazzling and original work of history.
A. Roger Ekirch’s American Sanctuary begins in 1797 with the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered...
The War of American Independence
1775-1783
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Wars rarely turn out as expected. This book shows how Britain entered a conflict that it believed could not be lost. The American Patriots were similarly optimistic about their martial prospects. Although they eventually secured independence, it was only with the assistance of France and indirectly...
The First Presidential Contest
1796 and the Founding of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
This is the first study in half a century to focus on the election of 1796. At first glance, the first presidential contest looks unfamiliar—parties were frowned upon, there was no national vote, and the candidates did not even participate (the political mores of the day forbade it). Yet for all...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Includes pictures of Burr, Hamilton, and important people and places.Explains the origins of their duel and includes the correspondence between them leading up to the duel.Includes accounts of the duel and explains the mysteries and controversies still surrounding what happened. Includes a Bibliography...