Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Blanqui – L'Enfermé
la biographie historique de Blanqui au travers des prisons, des révolutions et des utopies du XIXe siècle
Language: French
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Gustave Geffroy a été un des inventeurs du journalisme moderne.
Mais il est de ce siècle de géants, en pleine conscience de ce que leur a offert leur siècle. On ne raccourcit pas sa phrase sous prétexte qu’on n’est pas en littérature.
Blanqui est une immense figure. Mais une...
No Turning Point
The Saratoga Campaign in Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
The Battle of Saratoga in 1777 ended with British general John Burgoyne’s troops surrendering to the American rebel army commanded by General Horatio Gates. Historians have long seen Burgoyne’s defeat as a turning point in the American Revolution because it convinced France to join the war on...
A Peculiar Mixture
German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Through innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in A Peculiar Mixture endeavor to transform how we understand the bewildering multiplicity and complexity that characterized the experience of German-speaking people in the middle colonies. They...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
*Includes pictures of the Madisons and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. They seemed like an unusual couple from the outset. In 1794, Dolley Payne Todd was widely considered one of Philadelphia's most beautiful...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
*Includes biographies of all 4 presidents on Mount Rushmore. *Includes pictures of Mount Rushmore, the 4 presidents, and important people, places and events in their lives. *Includes an introduction for each president. *Includes a Table of Contents. A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Includes:•Charles River Editors original biography of Marie Antoinette•Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Leon Imbert de Saint-Amand•Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan•Secret Court Memoirs of Louis XVI and the Royal...
Napoleón Bonaparte
El emperador de los franceses
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Napoleón Bonaparte, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:• Descubrir la vida de Napoleón y el contexto en el que vivió, marcado por la expansión francesa en...
Benjamin Franklin
En el corazón de la Revolución estadounidense
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Benjamin Franklin, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:• Entender el contexto en el que se enmarca la vida de Benjamin Franklin, marcado por la llegada de los colonos...
Maximilien Robespierre
El incorruptible defensor del pueblo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Maximilien Robespierre, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:• Saber más sobre Maximilien Robespierre, un hombre sobrio cuyo único objetivo es acabar con los privilegios...
by Allan McLane Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The life of Alexander Hamilton is certainly one of great complexity and controversy and, as a result, has been of great interest to the general public for centuries. In the past two hundred years, there have been many accounts of Hamilton’s life-mostly commenting on his political personality rather...
The Twelve Apostles
Michael Collins, the Squad, and Ireland's Fight for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Ireland, 1919: When Sinn Féin proclaims Dáil Éireann the parliament of the independent Irish republic, London declares the new assembly to be illegal, and a vicious guerrilla war breaks out between republican and crown forces. Michael Collins, intelligence chief of the Irish Republican Army,...
Resistance
A Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
This collection of writings and images documents the political history of NYC’s Lower East Side, describing the lives and struggles of the radicals, artists, and immigrants that populated and politicized one of America’s strangest and most beloved neighborhoods. Current and former residents of...
Autumn of the Black Snake
The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The forgotten story of how the U.S. Army was created to fight a crucial Indian war
In 1783, with the signing of the Peace of Paris, the American Revolution was complete. And yet even as the newly independent United States secured peace with Great Britain, it found itself losing an escalating...
Never Caught
The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction
A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of “extraordinary grit” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly...