Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Napoléon Bonaparte
L'Empereur des Français, un géant de l'Histoire
Language: French
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Napoléon Bonaparte en moins d’une heure !
Qui mieux que Napoléon Bonaparte incarne le pouvoir de la volonté ? Issu d’un milieu modeste, son ascension est fulgurante. Il devient général de la Révolution à 26 ans, chef du gouvernement...
Robespierre
L’artisan de la Révolution française et des valeurs républicaines
Language: French
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Robespierre et la Révolution française en moins d’une heure !
Si certains voient en lui le monstre sanguinaire de la Terreur, d’autres préfèrent le considérer comme l’artisan de la Révolution et le défenseur des libertés du peuple...
Benjamin Franklin
Le Père fondateur des États-Unis
Language: French
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Benjamin Franklin en moins d’une heure !
Personnalité emblématique de l’histoire des États-Unis, Benjamin Franklin est le symbole même du self-made-man. Né dans une modeste famille, il quitte les bancs de l’école à l’âge de dix...
The General and Mrs. Washington
The Untold Story of a Marriage and a Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Here is the story of the fateful marriage of the richest woman in Virginia and the man who could have been king. In telling their story, Chadwick explains not only their remarkable devotion to each other, but why the wealthiest couple in Virginia became revolutionaries who risked the loss of their...
by Benjamin L. Carp
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Ties That Bound
Founding First Ladies and Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia, where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Montpelier to the nation’s...
Abigail Adams
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Wife of one president and mother of another, Abigail Adams was an extraordinary woman living at an extraordinary time in American history. A tireless letter writer and diarist, her penetrating and often caustic impressions of most of the major persons of her day--including Ben Franklin, George and...
by Robert F Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
A Brief Biographic Sketch of the Federalist Kentucky Lawyer known for his eccentricities. Daviess on one of the first to accuse Burr of treason. He suffered a heroic death at Tippecanoe.
by A H Guernsey
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
This is a brief account of Washington's two winters in the neighborhood of Morristown New Jersey during the American Revolution. Nicely illustrated.
by Clare Wright
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Winner of the Stella Prize, 2014.
The Eureka Stockade.
It's one of Australia's foundation legends yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and...
1789
A história de Tiradentes, contrabandistas, assassinos e poetas que sonharam a Independência do Brasil
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Você realmente conhece a história de Tiradentes e de seus companheiros inconfidentes? Minas Gerais no final do século XVIII era um lugar efervescente, selvagem e perigoso. Porém, muito mais perigosas que as rotas de contrabando de ouro e diamantes eram as ideias que pairavam na cabeça de jovens...
by Peter FitzSimons
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Eureka Stockade - the unfinished revolution . . . In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is legend in both our history and in the Australian mind. Henry Lawson wrote poems about it, its...
Flash
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
"'This remarkable novel is nothing less than a secret history of southern California-a radical past that might yet redeem our future."-Mike Davis, author of City of QuartzA chance encounter with a faded "Wanted!" poster in a San Diego library sends journalist Jack Wilson on a wild adventure through southern...
by Alexander Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Unfortunately, one of the best known aspects of Alexander Hamilton’s (1755-1804) life is the manner in which he died, being shot and killed in a famous duel with Aaron Burr in 1804. But Hamilton became one of the most instrumental Founding Fathers of the United States in that time, not only in helping...