Revolutionary category: 2684 books
The Great Demarcation
The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
What does it mean to own something? What sorts of things can be owned, and what cannot? How does one relinquish ownership? What are the boundaries between private and public property? Over the course of a decade, the French Revolution grappled with these questions. Punctuated by false starts, contingencies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Baron Ludwig von Closen-Haydenburg's lively account of his campaigns in America as aide-de-camp to Rochambeau during the Revolution is at last available here in published form. This is not only a translation but a critical edition that identifies the numerous eighteenth-century sources the Baron used...
by David Poole
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
"Práxedis G. Guerrero, anarchist, militant, propagandist, poet and secretary to the ‘Junta Organizadora del Partido Liberal Mexicano’ was the first Mexican anarchist to give his life for Land and Liberty, when he was killed, at the early age of only 28, during an attack on the town...
by Kali Ghosh
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This is a fascinating autobiography set before the partition of the subcontinent. Kali Prasad Ghosh belonged to a zamindar or landed family in Bengal. He joined the Congress movement and later, in the 1920s, became more radical. He was brought up as an intellectual but, in the end, his interest shifted...
American Silver-Hilted, Revolutionary and Early Federal Swords Volume Ii
According to Their Geographical Areas of Mounting
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
This publication gives the sword enthusiast an opportunity to observe edged weapons made, for the most part, in the United States that display regional characteristics that often transcend state lines. The makers of these swords, many of whom were silversmiths as well, had learned the skills and peculiarities...
The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin
Letters and Papers on Electricity, Philosophical Subjects, General Politics, Moral Subjects & the Economy, American Subjects Before & During the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
This collection starts first and foremost with Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, one of the most famous and influential autobiographies ever written. The edition includes all the collections of his writings, together with various papers that have been published in separate pamphlets. All the writing...
The Hamilton Cookbook
Cooking, Eating, and Entertaining in Hamilton's World
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
What was it like to eat with Alexander Hamilton, the Revolutionary War hero, husband, lover, and family man? In The Hamilton Cookbook, you’ll discover what he ate, what his favorite foods were, and how his food was served to him. With recipes and tips on ingredients, you’ll be able to recreate...
by Katherine Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
I have been fascinated by treasure stories all my life and dug deeper into these legends when I was a teenager. I've spent many years of my life fossil hunting, metal detecting, gem mining and consider each item a treasure in itself. However like most of us I dream of someday finding a REAL lost...
by Ernesto Che Guevara
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Che’s original, never-before-published diaries from the guerrilla war in Cuba’s Sierra Maestra.Unpublished for over fifty years, these dozen notebooks were the source material for the articles that comprise Che’s famous Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War, on which Steven Soderbergh...
by Luigi Galleani
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Here, translated for the first time into English, is a new edition of 'The End of Anarchism?' by Luigi Galleani, an anarchist militant in both Italy and North America, who is best known for his activities as the editor of the US-based Italian language journal, 'Cronaca Sovversiva', published between...
The Saratoga Campaign
Uncovering an Embattled Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The battles of Saratoga proved to be a turning point in the Revolutionary War when British forces under the command of General John Burgoyne surrendered to American forces led by General Horatio Gates. The Saratoga Campaign provides a new and greatly expanded understanding of the battles of Saratoga...
by Hugh F. Rankin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this classic account of the Revolutionary War experiences of the North Carolina Continentals, Hugh F. Rankin traces the events leading to war in North Carolina and follows all the campaigns and battles in which the North Carolina Continentals took part--Brandywine, Germantown, Charleston, Savannah,...
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2019
Liberty! brings to life one of the most important and compelling stories in America's history: the struggle for independence and the birth of the nation. New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming's gripping narrative captures the high drama of the revolutionary war years and the unyielding...
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party
Memory and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2001
George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the...