Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Eutaw Springs
The Final Battle of the American Revolution's Southern Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The Battle of Eutaw Springs took place on September 8, 1781, and was among the last in the War of Independence. It was brutal in its combat and reprisals, with Continental and Whig militia fighting British regulars and Loyalist regiments. Although its outcome was seemingly inconclusive, the battle,...
The Cape May Navy
Delaware Bay Privateers in the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
The Delaware Bay during the Revolutionary War was vital for trade and home to a host of armed conflicts between British vessels and American privateers. Cape May County captains in their light, fast vessels captured dozens of British merchant ships off the Atlantic coast. At the Battle of Delaware...
by John Codman
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This book, written by the American military historian John Codman, provides a detailed look Benedict Arnold's famous expedition to Quebec during the early parts of the Revolutionary War. A table of contents is included.
The Louisiana Purchase
A Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land from France at a price of approximately three cents per acre, dramatically altering the young nation’s geography and its political future. President Thomas Jefferson had struggled for three years over the purchase, which many believed...
To Starve the Army at Pleasure
Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775-1783
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
American political culture and military necessity were at odds during the War for American Independence, as demonstrated in this interpretation of Continental army administration. E. Wayne Carp shows that at every level of authority -- congressional, state, and county -- a localistic world-view, a...
The American Revolution
A World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
An illustrated collection of essays that explores the international dimensions of the American Revolution and its legacies in both America and around the world
The American Revolution: A World War argues that contrary to popular opinion, the American Revolution was not just a simple battle...
Separate Peoples, One Land
The Minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and Whites on the Tennessee Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Exploring the mental worlds of the major groups interacting in a borderland setting, Cynthia Cumfer offers a broad, multiracial intellectual and cultural history of the Tennessee frontier in the Revolutionary and early national periods, leading up to the era of rapid westward expansion and Cherokee...
Patrick Henry
Proclaiming a Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Often referred to as "the voice of the Revolution," Patrick Henry played a vital role in helping to launch the revolt of the American colonies against British rule. An early and compelling Revolutionary orator, Henry played an active part in the debates over the founding of the United States....
Victory or Death
The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, December 25, 1776 - January 3, 1777
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
December 1776: Just six months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, George Washington and the new American Army sit on the verge of utter destruction by the banks of the Delaware River. The despondent and demoralized group of men had endured repeated defeats and now were on the edge...
Adventurism and Empire
The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana-Florida Borderlands, 1762-1803
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
In this expansive book, David Narrett shows how the United States emerged as a successor empire to Great Britain through rivalry with Spain in the Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast. As he traces currents of peace and war over four critical decades--from the close of the Seven Years War through the...
1774
The Long Year of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020
From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2018 president of the American Historical Association, a groundbreaking book, the first to look at the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April...
Revolt, Revolution, Critique
The Paradox of Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
In contemporary society the idea of ‘revolution’ seems to have become obsolete. What is more untimely than the idea of revolution today? At the same time, however, the idea of radical change no longer refers to exceptional circumstances but has become normalized as part of daily life. Ours is...
War and Revolution
Rethinking the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians, one that’s grown increasingly apparent in recent years. It’s a revisionist tendency discernible in the work of authors such as Ernst Nolte, who traces the impetus behind the Holocaust to the excesses...
Shays's Rebellion
The American Revolution's Final Battle
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
During the bitter winter of 1786-87, Daniel Shays, a modest farmer and Revolutionary War veteran, and his compatriot Luke Day led an unsuccessful armed rebellion against the state of Massachusetts. Their desperate struggle was fueled by the injustice of a regressive tax system and a conservative state...