Revolutionary category: 2684 books
I am heartily ashamed
Volume II: The Revolutionary War's Final Campaign as Waged from Canada in 1782
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
The second installment in Gavin K. Watt's Revolutionary War trilogy, I am heartily ashamed picks up where A dirty, trifling piece of business leaves off. It's a new year with new challenges.
An incredibly fierce Canadian winter was endured before raiding was resumed against the enemy's frontiers....
Unshackling America
How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Williard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global struggle....
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...
The Travels of Elkanah Watson
An American Businessman in the Revolutionary War, in 1780s Europe and in the Formative Decades of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Elkanah Watson (1758–1842) travelled everywhere and associated with everyone—soldiers, politicians, diplomats, Indians, artists, scientists, slave traders and abolitionists. He met the Marquis de Lafayette, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Paine and many other American...
by Michal Jan Rozbicki
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In his new book, Michal Jan Rozbicki undertakes to bridge the gap between the political and the cultural histories of the American Revolution. Through a careful examination of liberty as both the ideological axis and the central metaphor of the age, he is able to offer a fresh model for interpreting...
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
Revolution and Counterrevolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
The final, revised, edition of Burnett Bolloten’s exhaustive and indispensable, 50-year-long scholarly study of Republican/revolutionary politics in the Spanish Civil War (“The Grand Camouflage:, 1961; “The Spanish Revolution”, 1979; “The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution”,...
A People's History of the American Revolution
How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
“The best single-volume history of the Revolution I have read.” —Howard Zinn
Upon its initial publication, Ray Raphael’s magisterial A People’s History of the American Revolution was hailed by NPR’s Fresh Air as “relentlessly aggressive and unsentimental.” With impeccable skill,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
This significant historical volume was produced by the Center of Military History as part of its special studies on the War of American Independence (the Revolution). This book deals with the period when the Medical Department existed only as a wartime expedient and concludes with the passage in April...
Samuel Adams
America's Revolutionary Politician
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
Samuel Adams: America's Revolutionary Politician offers a fresh full-life biography of the man Thomas Jefferson once described as the helmsman of the American Revolution. In his study, historian John K. Alexander uses narrative history to argue that Samuel Adams was both America's first professional...
Wild Yankees
The Struggle for Independence along Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Northeast Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley was truly a dark and bloody ground, the site of murders, massacres, and pitched battles. The valley's turbulent history was the product of a bitter contest over property and power known as the Wyoming controversy. This dispute, which raged between the mid-eighteenth...
by Alan Woods
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Ted Grant was a well-known figure in the international Marxist movement. He had a significant impact on British politics. When he died all the most important newspapers carried extensive obituaries that recognised this fact.This is a remarkable work that comprehensively covers the development of Ted's...
Pulpit and Nation
Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
In Pulpit and Nation, Spencer McBride highlights the importance of Protestant clergymen in early American political culture, elucidating the actual role of religion in the founding era. Beginning with colonial precedents for clerical involvement in politics and concluding with false rumors of Thomas...
A Man Apart
The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774 - 1781
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
The American Revolution radically changed the lives of many, some of them friends of the Revolution, some not, and some who wished to have no part of it for either side. Rarely did one of these reluctant witnesses leave a narrative journal. Nicholas Cresswell, a young English gentry farmer, was one....
The Swamp Fox
Francis Marion’s Campaign in the Carolinas 1780
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013
The American Revolution was deadlocked in the north, and in 1778, the focus of the conflict shifted south. Following his decisive 1780 victory at Charleston, Cornwallis launched a campaign through the Carolinas that was designed to expel American Continental and militia forces from the south. The...