Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Unlikely Allies
How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
**Look out for Joel Paul’s new book, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
The gripping true story of how three men used espionage, betrayal, and sexual deception to help win the American Revolution.**
Unlikely Allies is the story of three remarkable historical...
by Kate Cooch
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
A 2200 word history short about a possible military coup after the Revolutionary War. The Society of the Cincinnati was formed by disgruntled members of the Continental Army as the Revolutionary War drew to a close. They were unhappy with lack of pay and supplies promised to them by the Continental...
Liberty's Exiles
American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
On November 25, 1783, the last British troops pulled out of New York City, bringing the American Revolution to an end. Patriots celebrated their departure and the confirmation of U.S. independence. But for tens of thousands of American loyalists, the British evacuation spelled worry, not jubilation....
Igniting the American Revolution
1773-1775
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
"For those who like their history rich in vivid details, Derek Beck has served up a delicious brew in this book....This may soon become everyone's favorite." —Thomas Fleming, author of Liberty! The American Revolution
A sweeping, provocative new look at the pivotal years leading...
by Sarah Knott
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In the wake of American independence, it was clear that the new United States required novel political forms. Less obvious but no less revolutionary was the idea that the American people needed a new understanding of the self. Sensibility was a cultural movement that celebrated the human capacity...
Saratoga
A Military History of the Decisive Campaign of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
The months-long 1777 Saratoga campaign was one of the most decisive of the entire Revolutionary War. The crushing British defeat prompted France to recognize the American colonies as an independent nation, declare war on England, and commit money, ships, arms, and men to the rebellion. John Luzader’s...
Between Sovereignty and Anarchy
The Politics of Violence in the American Revolutionary Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Beginning with the recognition that violence and struggle for power and sovereignty, not only a clash of ideas, were an integral part of the American Revolution, the editors weave emerging strands of interpretation of the Revolutionary era into a new synthesis that takes us far beyond the "rhetoric versus reality" approach that has remained in place for more than a generation.
Revolutionaries
A New History of the Invention of America
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
“[A] wide-ranging and nuanced group portrait of the Founding Fathers” by a Pulitzer Prize winner (The New Yorker).
In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted to family and the private pursuit of...
Independence Lost
Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
**A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society
Winner of the Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Award • Winner of the Society of the...
American Revolutionary War Leaders
A Biographical Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
This massive biographical reference work covers both well-known and obscure figures from a variety of backgrounds including soldiers, politicians, plantation owners, farmers, and more. Information is included for officers of the Continental Army, Navy, and Marines; leaders of state militias, for whom...
by Michael Kranish
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
When Thomas Jefferson wrote his epitaph, he listed as his accomplishments his authorship of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia statute of religious freedom, and his founding of the University of Virginia. He did not mention his presidency or that he was second governor of the state of Virginia,...
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...
by Jonathan C. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
As Castro’s democratic reform movement veered off course, a revolution that seemed to signal the death knell of dictatorship in Latin America brought about its tragic opposite. Jonathan C. Brown examines in forensic detail how the turmoil that rocked a small Caribbean nation in the 1950s became one of the century’s most transformative events.
The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq
A Study of Iraq's Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of its Communists, Ba`thists and Free Officers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This comparative study analyses the traditional elite of Iraq and their sucessors - the Communists, the Bathists and Free Officers - in terms of social and economic relationships in each area of the country. The author draws on secret government documents and interviews with key figures, both in power...