Revolutionary category: 2684 books
by Gary B. Nash
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1990
The most profound crisis of conscience for white Americans at the end of the eighteenth century became their most tragic failure. Race and Revolution is a trenchant study of the revolutionary generation's early efforts to right the apparent contradiction of slavery and of their ultimate compromises...
by Marquis de Lafayette
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
Memoirs of General Lafayette
With an Account of His Visit to America, and of His Reception by the People of the United States; from His Arrival, August 15th, to the Celebration at Yorktown, October 19th, 1824 by Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier
CONTENTS (abridged list)
Introductory...
Give Me a Fast Ship
The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
**WINNER OF THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE
“A meticulous, adrenaline-filled account of the earliest days of the Continental Navy.”—New York Times Bestselling Author Laurence Bergreen**
America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution—or, more likely, disastrous...
With Musket and Tomahawk
The Saratoga Campaign and the Wilderness War of 1777
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
A comprehensive look at the brutal wilderness war that secured America's independence . . .
With Musket and Tomahawk is a vivid account of the American and British struggles in the sprawling wilderness region of the northeast during the Revolutionary War. Combining strategic, tactical, and...
Patriot Battles
How the Revolutionary War was Fought
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Drawing on hundreds of specialist sources, contemporary and archival, Patriot Battles is the comprehensive one-volume study of the military aspects of the War of Independence. The first part of the book offers a richly detailed examination of the nuts and bolts of eighteenth-century combat: For example,...
Guns Of Independence The Siege Of Yorktown 1781
The Siege of Yorktown, 1781
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
The siege of Yorktown in the fall of 1781 was the single most decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The campaign has all the drama any historian or student could want: the war's top generals and admirals pitted against one another; decisive naval engagements; cavalry fighting; siege warfare;...
Brandywine
A Military History of the Battle that Lost Philadelphia but Saved America, September 11, 1777
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Winner of the American Revolution Round Table of Richmond Book Award—“An impressive interpretation of the battle” (Arthur S. Lefkowitz, author of Benedict Arnold’s Army).
Long overshadowed by the stunning American victory at Saratoga, the complex British campaign that defeated George Washington’s...
The Road to Valley Forge
How Washington Built the Army that Won the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Acclaim for The Road to Valley Forge
"Buchanan is a master of the historical narrative . . . a host of new insights into George Washington as a leader of men."
-Thomas Fleming, author of Liberty!: The American Revolution
"The Road to Valley Forge is an effective operational...
The Road to Guilford Courthouse
The American Revolution in the Carolinas
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
A brilliant account of the proud and ferocious American fighters who stood up to the British forces in savage battles crucial in deciding both the fate of the Carolina colonies and the outcome of the war.
"A tense, exciting historical account of a little known chapter of the Revolution,...
by Gerald M. Carbone
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Before he became "the Father of our Country," George Washington was the Father of the American Army. He took an army that had no experience, no tradition, and no training, and fought a protracted war against the best, most disciplined force in the world—the British Army. Deftly handling...
by Paul Avrich
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
Paul Avrich’s The Russian Anarchists records the history and ideas of Russian anarchism from the 19th century through to its brutal suppression by the Bolsheviks in the 1920s. All the major personalities are discussed in detail: Bakunin, Kropotkin, Baron, Rogdaev, Chernyi, Makhno, Volin, Shapiro,...
Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom
Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
The myth and the reality of Ethan Allen and the much-loved Green Mountain Boys of Vermont—a “surprising and interesting new account…useful, informative reexamination of an often-misunderstood aspect of the American Revolution” (Booklist).
In the “highly recommended” (Library Journal)...
by Benjamin Quarles
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Originally published in 1961, this classic work remains the most comprehensive history of the many and important roles played by African Americans during the American Revolution. With this book, Benjamin Quarles added a new dimension to the military history of the Revolution and addressed for the...
The Russian Revolution
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The definitive, single-volume history of the Russian Revolution, from an award-winning scholar
In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and introduced Communism to the world. Between 1917 and...