Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Divided Loyalties
How the American Revolution Came to New York
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Before the Civil War splintered the young country, there was another conflict that divided friends and family--the Revolutionary War
Prior to the French and Indian War, the British government had taken little interest in their expanding American empire. Years of neglect had allowed America's...
by Michael A. Shea
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
In God We Trust: George Washington and the Spiritual Destiny of the United States of America, is a two-part book that documents numerous examples of God’s intercession in George Washington’s life, and in the history of the United States. The first part of the book, George Washington, is a providential...
Faces of Revolution
Personalities & Themes in the Struggle for American Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today.
The English Rebel
One Thousand Years of Trouble-making from the Normans to the Nineties
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
The English have a rich and glorious history of making trouble for themselves. One hundred and forty years before the French Revolution, the English executed their king and instituted a radical revolutionary government. In 1215, more than 570 years before the United States ratified its Bill of Rights,...
SPARTACUS
The Leader of the Roman Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Marxist historian F. A. Ridley’s account of the revolt led by, among others, Thracian gladiator Spartacus, one of the prominent escaped slave leaders of the Third Servile War against the Roman Republic. Ridley places Spartacus and the uprising in the context of the social systems of antiquity; the...
Che
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
In a new, expanded edition of a bestselling Ocean classic, Castro vividly portrays Che, the man, the revolutionary and the thinker, describing in detail his last days with Che in Cuba, giving a remarkably frank assessment of the Bolivian mission.
THE SPANISH COCKPIT
An Eye-Witness Account of the Political and Social Conflicts of the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Austrian sociologist and disillusioned former Comintern official Franz Borkenau visited Republican Spain between August and September 1936, and again in January-February 1937. The account of his first-hand experiences as an independent socialist observer in revolutionary Spain,‘The Spanish Cockpit’,...
by José Peirats Valls
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
José Peirats’s La CNT en la revolución española is the history of one of the most original and audacious, and arguably also the most far-reaching, of all the twentieth-century revolutions. It is the history of the giddy years of political change and hope in 1930s Spain, when...
Stealing God's Thunder
Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
“We forget, living in this era of heavily patented research and closely guarded results, how wonderfully exciting the scientific world used to be. In Stealing God’s Thunder, the story of Benjamin Franklin’s invention of the lightening rod and the resulting consequences, that sense of wonder...
by Eran Shalev
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The Bible has always been an integral part of American political culture. Yet in the years before the Civil War, it was the Old Testament, not the New Testament, that pervaded political rhetoric. From Revolutionary times through about 1830, numerous American politicians, commentators, ministers,...
Last Run of the Whisperer
A Story of a Soldier of the Connecticut Line
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
"Last Run of the Whisperer" is a historical fiction novel based upon the Revolutionary War records of William Waterman of Norwich, Connecticut colony. The author has taken the information that William Waterman has provided to us through his own account of his service in the American Revolution,...
by Robert J. Allison
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new form of government based on the idea that...
Death or Liberty
African Americans and Revolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton plantations,...
by John André
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Journal of Major John André is the journal of the famous British spy who was caught attempting to assist Benedict Arnold during the Revolutionary War.