Revolutionary category: 2684 books
George Washington's War
In Caricature and Print
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
A Revolutionary War history told through eighteenth-century illustrations: “Utterly absorbing” (The Times, London).
Americans are steeped in the history of the American Revolution, but often the fog of myth shrouds the reality. In these pages, the path to war is starkly documented by British...
by Charles Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
One of the most famous revolutions in history, the American Revolution (1775-1783) was the political upheaval in which 13 distinct colonies in North America banded together to cast off British rule, forming the United States of America. After the shot heard round the world on April 19, 1775, at the...
American Dialogue
The Founders and Us
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.
The story of history is a ceaseless...
The Clamor of Lawyers
The American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal Profession
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
The Clamor of Lawyers explores a series of extended public pronouncements that British North American colonial lawyers crafted between 1761 and 1776. Most, though not all, were composed outside of the courtroom and detached from on-going litigation. While they have been studied as political theory,...
by Camillo Berneri
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Camillo Berneri (1897, Lodi, Italy – May 5, 1937, Barcelona) anarchist militant, propagandist and theorist: ‘To guarantee revolution, it is not enough for the mob to be armed or for them to have expropriated the bourgeoisie: it is necessary for them to destroy the capitalist system entirely and...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
*Includes 20 pictures of Hamilton and some of the important people, places, and events of his life. *Discusses the mysteries of the Hamilton-Burr duel. *Includes a Table of Content. A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost...
Laboratories of Virtue
Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Michael Meranze uses Philadelphia as a case study to analyze the relationship between penal reform and liberalism in early America. In Laboratories of Virtue, he interprets the evolving system of criminal punishment as a microcosm of social tensions that characterized the early American republic....
THE ANGRY BRIGADE
A History of Britain’s First Urban Guerilla Group
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
'You can't reform profit capitalism and inhumanity. Just kick it till it breaks.'
— Angry Brigade, communiqué 8.
Between 1970 and 1972 the Angry Brigade used guns and bombs in a series of symbolic attacks against property. A series of communiqués accompanied the actions,...
by William Jennings Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 July 26, 1925) was a tour de force in American politics around the end of the 19th century. Bryan had a long, distinguished career in politics as a liberal in the Democratic Party, including serving as Secretary of State and presidential candidate. He advocated...
The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens
Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Andrew Pickens (1739–1817), the hard-fighting South Carolina militia commander of the American Revolution, was the hero of many victories against British and Loyalist forces. In this book, Rod Andrew Jr. offers an authoritative and comprehensive biography of Pickens the man, the general, the planter,...
by Edward Augustus Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This is a history that looks at Britain during the colonial era and the Revolutionary era, and it celebrates the life and deeds of George Washington, who the book argues helped “expand” England by winning the Revolution for the new United States and thereby helped spread the culture and customs in the New World.
Time Line of the American Revolution - 1775
Timeline of United States History, #6
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Discover the obscure, little known actions as well as the famous ones in the Time Line of the American Revolution - 1775. This journal of the first year of the United States War of Independence reveals the important events of the first year of the colonial rebellion.
We Do Not Fear Anarchy?We Invoke It
The First International and the Origins of the Anarchist Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
From 1864 to 1876, socialists, communists, trade unionists, and anarchists synthesized a growing body of anticapitalist thought through participation in the First International-a body devoted to uniting left-wing radical tendencies of the time. Often remembered for the historic fights between Karl...
Armies of the Italian Wars of Unification 1848–70 (1)
Piedmont and the Two Sicilies
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
In the 1840s, post-Napoleonic Italy was 'a geographical expression' – not a country, but a patchwork of states, divided between the Austrian-occupied north, and a Spanish-descended Bourbon monarchy, who ruled the south from Naples. Two decades later, it was a nation united under a single king and...