Revolutionary category: 2684 books
This Destructive War
The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780-1782
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
An exciting and accurate portrayal of the military action in the southern colonies that led to a new American nation.
A companion to Pancake’s study of the northern campaign, 1777: The Year of the Hangman, this volume deals with the American Revolution in the Carolinas. Together, the two...
by William A. Pelz
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
In October 1918, war-weary German sailors mutinied when the Imperial Naval Command ordered their engagement in one final, fruitless battle with the British Royal Navy. This revolt, in the dying embers of the First World War, quickly erupted into a full scale revolution that toppled the monarchy and...
The Age of Revolutions
The American Revolution & The French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
The Age of Revolution is the period from approximately 1774 to 1849 in which a number of significant revolutionary movements occurred in many parts of Europe and the Americas. The period is noted for the change in government from absolutist monarchies to constitutionalist states and republics. Two...
Citizens of Convenience
The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Like merchant ships flying flags of convenience to navigate foreign waters, traders in the northern borderlands of the early American republic exploited loopholes in the Jay Treaty that allowed them to avoid border regulations by constantly shifting between British and American nationality. In Citizens...
Imaginary Friendship in the American Revolution
John Adams and Jonathan Sewall
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Imaginary Friendship is the first in-depth study of the onset of the American Revolution through the prism of friendship, focusing on future US president John Adams and leading Loyalist Jonathan Sewall. The book is part biography, revealing how they shaped each other’s progress, and part political...
Proletarian Peasants
The Revolution of 1905 in Russia's Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In this book, conceived and written for the general reader as well as the specialist, Robert Edelman uses a case study of peasant behavior during a particular revolutionary situation to make an important contribution to one of the major debates in contemporary peasant studies. Edelman's subject is...
by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2002
Through portraits of four figures—Charles Willson Peale, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, William Dunlap, and Noah Webster—Joseph Ellis provides a unique perspective on the role of culture in post-Revolutionary America, both its high expectations and its frustrations.
Each life is fascinating in its own right, and each is used to brightly illuminate the historical context.
Why Occupy a Square?
People, Protests and Movements in the Egyptian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
On 25 January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptians came out on the streets to protest against emergency rule and police brutality. Eighteen days later, Mubarak, one of the longest sitting dictators in the region, had gone. How are we to make sense of these events? Was this a revolution, a revolutionary...
Diplomacy in Black and White
John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
From 1798 to 1801, during the Haitian Revolution, President John Adams and Toussaint Louverture forged diplomatic relations that empowered white Americans to embrace freedom and independence for people of color in Saint-Domingue. The United States supported the Dominguan revolutionaries with economic...
Batsto Village
Jewel of the Pines
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The story of Batsto, an early iron town and glassworks at the heart of southern New Jersey's Pine Barrens, is unique in American history. From its modest beginnings as a sawmill in the 1760s, Batsto grew into a thriving industrial community through the Revolutionary War years and beyond, its fortunes...
Enduring Battle
American Soldiers in Three Wars, 1776-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Throughout history, battlefields have placed a soldier's instinct for self-preservation in direct opposition to the army's insistence that he do his duty and put himself in harm's way. Enduring Battle looks beyond advances in weaponry to examine changes in warfare at the very personal level. Drawing...
by Luis Báez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 6, 2016
One of the most important events of 20th century is Cuban Revolution (Revolución Cubana!).
This book contains historical record of the first few weeks of the revolution (from Jan.1st to Jan.17th of 1959); the period when all the revolutionary troops began a victorious march towards the capital,...
by Jean Jules Jusserand
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Jean Jules Jusserand (1855 1932) was a French author and ambassador to the United States. In 1917, Jusserand won the first Pulitzer Prize in History for With Americans of Past and Present Days. Jusserands classic discusses American-French relations through history, including the Comte de Rochambeau...
Dr. Benjamin Rush
The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
A gripping, often startling biography of the Founding Father of an America that other Founding Fathers forgot--an America of women, African Americans, Jews, Roman Catholics, Quakers, indentured workers, the poor, the mentally ill, and war veterans
Ninety percent of Americans could not vote...