Revolutionary category: 2684 books

PRAISE FOR HARLOW GILES UNGER'S NOAH WEBSTER: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN AMERICAN PATRIOT "Noah Webster was a truly remarkable man; shrewd, passionate, learned and energetic, God-fearing and patriotic. Mr. Unger has done a fine job reintroducing him to a new generation of Americans."-Washington...

In Verdicts of History, New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming highlights six courtroom dramas that changed the future of America. From unexpected verdicts, like the acquittal won by John Adams when he defended British soldiers charged with the Boston Massacre in 1770 to stirred passions...

In May 1787, in an atmosphere of crisis, delegates met in Philadelphia to design a radically new form of government. Distinguished historian Richard Beeman captures as never before the dynamic of the debate and the characters of the men who labored that historic summer. Virtually all of the issues...

This is the complete and authoritative edition of the folk and fairy tales of the brothers Grimm, with 212 tales, and including the tale of The Starving Children (which was removed after the 1819 edition). THE FOLK & FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen - Vollstämdige...

A Pulitzer Prize winner looks at the course of American history from the birth of the Constitution to the dawn of the Civil War.   The years between 1787 and 1863 witnessed the development of the American Nation—its society, politics, customs, culture, and, most important, the development...

Award-winning author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, China Miéville tells the extraordinary story of this pivotal moment in history. In February of 1917 Russia was a backwards, autocratic monarchy,...

The Invention of Paris is a tour through the streets and history of the French capital under the guidance of radical Parisian author and publisher Eric Hazan. Hazan reveals a city whose squares echo with the riots, rebellions and revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Combining...

Extrait : "« La Bastille, écrivait Sainte-Foix, est un château qui, sans être fort, est un des plus redoutables de l'Europe, et dont je ne dirai rien. » — « Il est plus sûr, répétait-on dans Paris, de s'en taire que d'en parler. » A l'extrémité de la rue Saint-Antoine, à l'entrée du faubourg,...

George William Curtis (February 24, 1824 – August 31, 1892) was an American writer and public speaker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, of New Englander ancestry. 

George William Curtis (February 24, 1824 – August 31, 1892) was an American writer and public speaker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, of New Englander ancestry. 

**The past is another country – this is your guidebook, from nationally bestselling author of *The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England. *** Imagine you could see the smiles of the people mentioned in Samuel Pepys’s diary, hear the shouts of market traders, and touch their wares....

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Lafayette en moins d’une heure ! Parti en Amérique contre la volonté de son entourage et même du roi, Lafayette, tout juste âgé de 20 ans, se lance à corps perdu dans la guerre d’indépendance. Son engagement précoce, son indéfectibilité...

Today most of us enjoy the work of famed Renaissance artist Michelangelo by perusing art books or strolling along the galleries of a museum—and the luckier of us have had a chance to see his extraordinary frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. But as Bernadine Barnes shows in this book,...

Pendant la révolution, la guillotine fonctionnait à plein régime et le peuple dans les tribunes en redemandait. Les foules révolutionnaires ; Tape-dur et Tricoteuses ; piques et bonnets rouges ; la tyrannie prolétarienne; les massacres, les noyades, les principaux...