Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Samuel Adams
Father of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Winner of the 2007 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award!
Samuel Adams is perhaps the most unheralded and overshadowed of the founding fathers, yet without him there would have been no American Revolution. A genius at devising civil protests and political maneuvers that became a trademark of American...
by Edward G. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
The little-known story of the architectural project that lay at the heart of Tom Paine’s political blueprint for the United States.
In a letter to his wife Abigail, John Adams judged the author of Common Sense as having “a better hand at pulling down than building.” Adams’s dismissive...
Adam Smith and the Origins of American Enterprise
How America's Industrial Success was Forged by the Timely Ideas of a Brilliant Scots Economist
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2004
Adam Smith was a Scottish professor of moral philosophy. He published his classic The Wealth of Nations in 1776, the year the American Revolution began. Smith became widely known for his ideas of free markets, laissez-faire commerce, and the "invisible hand." Yet English politicians, landed...
Tobacco Culture
The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2009
The great Tidewater planters of mid-eighteenth-century Virginia were fathers of the American Revolution. Perhaps first and foremost, they were also anxious tobacco farmers, harried by a demanding planting cycle, trans-Atlantic shipping risks, and their uneasy relations with English agents. George...
The Fourth of July and the Founding of America
The Startling Truth Behind the Birth of Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A history of the holiday and an “elegant, ironic, brief but deeply researched meditation on what makes America America” (Financial Times).
Holidays of all sorts are celebrated in the United States, many rooted in the country’s great diversity of ethnicities, religions, and cultures. But...
The Society for Useful Knowledge
How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Benjamin Franklin and his contemporaries brought the Enlightenment to America-an intellectual revolution that laid the foundation for the political one that followed. With the “first Drudgery” of settling the American colonies now past, Franklin announced in 1743, it was time the colonists set...
by Karen Ramsburg
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Eight years before the Boston Tea Party and ten years before Lexington and Concord, the first shots in the American Revolution were fired in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1765. Known as the Smith Rebellion, this crucial turning point in American history set the stage for modern American politics.
In...
Israel on the Appomattox
A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEA New York Times Book Review and Atlantic Monthly Editors' ChoiceThomas Jefferson denied that whites and freed blacks could live together in harmony. His cousin, Richard Randolph, not only disagreed, but made it possible for ninety African Americans to prove Jefferson wrong....
The Sundarbans
Folk Deities, Monsters and Mortals
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
The book is about the colonization of the Sunderbans that began with the coming of the British. For two centuries, land-hungry peasants strove to transform the tidal forest vegetation into an agro- ecosystem dominated by paddy fields and fish culture. The construction of a permanent railroad led to...
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Emperor of France
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Napoleon Bonaparte in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Napoleon Bonaparte. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, France was in a state of division and anarchy, and in desperate...
The Indian World of George Washington
The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
George Washington's place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story--from his beginnings as a surveyor and farmer, to colonial soldier in the Virginia Regiment, leader of the Patriot cause, commander of the Continental Army, and finally first president of the United States--reflects...
by Summary Station
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
Summary ofHidden FiguresFrom Margot Lee ShetterlyKatherine Johnson:One of the Black Woman Mathematicians Who Worked with NASA on the Space RaceBy Summary StationKatherine Coleman Goble Johnson is one of the most important pioneers from the American space movement. She is a physicist...
by Warren L. Bingham
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This account of the first president’s trip to unite a young America “follows Washington’s travels day-by-day with detailed information about each stop” (Daily Herald).
Newly elected president George Washington set out to visit the new nation aware that he was the singular unifying figure...
Louis XVI
Les dernières heures de la monarchie absolue
Language: French
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Louis XVI en moins d’une heure !
Devenu roi malgré lui suite au décès de son frère aîné et de ses parents, Louis XVI n’a pas le tempérament d’un monarque. Il considère son destin davantage comme un fardeau que comme une véritable...