Revolutionary category: 2684 books
by Michael C. Scoggins
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
In July of 1780, when the Revolutionary War in the Southern states seemed doomed to failure, a small but important battle took place on James Williamson's plantation in what is now York County, South Carolina. The Battle of Williamson's Plantation, or "Huck's Defeat" as it later came to be known, laid...
by Timothy Tackett
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
How did the French Revolution’s ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror? Timothy Tackett offers a new interpretation of this turning point in world history. Penetrating the mentality of Revolutionary elites on the eve of the Terror, he reveals how suspicion and mistrust escalated and helped propel their actions.
The Legacies of Fear
Law and Politics in Quebec in the Era of the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Many people assume that a French-English cleavage has always existed and historians have been uncertain as to just how it unfolded. This book provides the answer. Greenwood re-creates a Quebec in which trust between French and English Canadians was an early casualty of the execution of Louis XVI and...
Mao's Road to Power
Revolutionary Writings: Volume VIII
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This eighth volume covers the period 1942 to 1945 when Mao asserted his status as the incarnation and symbol of the Chinese Revolution and the sinification of Marxism-Leninism.
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Includes:*Charles River Editors original biography*The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with an introduction from Harvard Classics Volume IBefore the United States of America even existed, the first American celebrity was Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). In his career, Franklin was an author, printer,...
THE CNT AT THE CROSSROADS — Extracts
The Adventures of an Anarchist Heterodox
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Translated extracts from the memoirs of Luis Andrés Edo, an anarchist activist whose life was dedicated to the ‘Idea’ and the struggle for liberty. Throughout his life Luis Andrés Edo remained always both an untiring activist and an intellectual dynamo of the international libertarian...
Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution
Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Russians from all walks of life joyously celebrated the end of Nicholas II’s monarchy, but one year later, amid widespread civil strife and lawlessness, a fearful citizenry stayed out of sight. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa offers a new perspective on Russia’s revolutionary year through the lens of violent crime and its devastating effect on ordinary people.
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The World of the American Revolution: A Daily Life Encyclopedia [2 volumes]
A Daily Life Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
This two-volume set brings to life the daily thoughts and routines of men and women—rich and poor, of various cultures, religions, races, and beliefs—during a time of great political, social, economic, and legal turmoil.
• Provides summaries of what people ate, wore, and read and also...
Justifying Revolution
Law, Virtue, and Violence in the American War of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
The American imagination still exalts the Founders as the prime movers of the Revolution, and the War of Independence has become the stuff of legend. But America is not simply the invention of great men or the outcome of an inevitable political or social movement. The nation was the result of a hard,...
George Washington
Uniting a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2004
In 1776, thirteen colonies declared their independence from Britain. Although they came together to fight a war, the colonies were far from a unified nation. In George Washington: Uniting a Nation, Don Higginbotham argues that Washington's greatest contribution to American life was creating a sense...
Three To Ride
A Ride That Defied An Empire and Spawned A New Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Three to Ride chronicles the events leading to the actions taken by British colonists in America against British troops, ultimately concluding in independence for the colonies. The subject is explored over time, beginning with discord between a number of English subjects and the religious teachings...
by S.D. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1959
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1959
In this volume, Professor Clark shows that for two hundred years Canadian society was subject to the same kind of disturbing and disruptive forces that revealed themselves in the United States in the Revolutionary period. In Canada, as in the United States, there was a frontier element which, economically,...
Tory Insurgents
The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Building on the work of his 1989 book, The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays, accomplished historian Robert M. Calhoon returns to the subject of internal strife in the American Revolution with Tory Insurgents. This volume collects revised, updated versions of eighteen groundbreaking articles, essays,...
by Derek Molyneux, Darren Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
The 1916 Rising is one of the most documented and analysed episodes in Ireland's turbulent history. Often overlooked, however, is its immediate aftermath. This significant window in the narrative of Irish revolutionary history, which saw the rebirth of the Volunteers and laid the foundations for the...