Revolutionary category: 2684 books
The Peopling of British North America
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
In this introduction to his large-scale work The Peopling of British North America, Bernard Bailyn identifies central themes in a formative passage of our history: the transatlantic transfer of people from the Old World to the North American continent that formed the basis of American society. Voyagers...
Voyagers to the West
A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Saloutos Prize of the Immigration History Society
Bailyn's Pulitzer Prize-winning book uses an emigration roster that lists every person officially known to have left Britain for America from December 1773 to March 1776 to reconstruct the lives and motives...
Revolution Against Empire
Taxes, Politics, and the Origins of American Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representationRevolution Against Empire sets the story of American independence within a long and fierce clash over the political and economic future of the British Empire. Justin du Rivage...
No Property in Man
Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Driving straight to the heart of the most contentious issue in American history, Sean Wilentz argues controversially that, far from concealing a crime against humanity, the U.S. Constitution limited slavery’s legitimacy—a limitation which in time inspired the antislavery politics that led to Southern secession, the Civil War, and Emancipation.
Der Fluch der bösen Tat
Das Scheitern des Westens im Orient
Language: German
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Es gärt und brodelt überall: Syrien und der Irak versinken im grausamen Bürgerkrieg aller gegen alle, in der Türkei ringen islamistische und säkulare Kräfte um die Vormacht. Ägypten ist im Daueraufruhr, und auch am Nordrand dieser unruhigen Weltgegend, im Kaukasus und in der Ukraine, ist die...
The Transformation of American Abolitionism
Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Most accounts date the birth of American abolitionism to 1831, when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his radical antislavery newspaper, The Liberator. In fact, however, the abolition movement had been born with the American Republic. In the decades following the Revolution, abolitionists worked...
George Washington's Secret Six
The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
*Now with a new afterword containing never-before-seen research on the identity of the spy ring’s most secret member, Agent 355
“This is my kind of history book. Get ready. Here’s the action.” —BRAD MELTZER, bestselling author of The Fifth Assassin and host of Decoded
When...
World War 2: Stories of the Schutzstaffel: True Accounts of Hitler’s Personal Bodyguards
World War 2 History, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The instigator and the mastermind behind the Holocaust; Adolf Hitler of Germany, was at the forefront of the Second World War and ruined millions of lives, throwing the entire European continent into chaos. Not only was he hated by the whole world, even some of his own military commanders didn’t...
Victorian Yankees at Queen Victoria's Court
American Encounters with Victoria and Albert
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Little seems to have changed since Victoria's day in the instant magnetism of British royalty across the Atlantic; yet for the first generations liberated by revolution, the British Isles and its sovereigns seemed as remote as the Moon. In the young nation, Americans who were little interested in...
by Francis Russell
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
The leading actors and events in Boston in the 1770s - Samuel Adams, John Hancock, the Boston Tea Party, Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill - have assumed a cherished place in history. Yet, with the passage of time, a layer of legend has obscured the true picture. Here, from award-winning author Francis Russell, is the bloody story of the early days of the American Revolution.
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2019
"Written with skill and suspense, it is an inspiring story that Americans can read with pride." - Chicago Tribune. Here, from New York Times bestselling author Thomas Fleming, is the story of that June day in 1775 that made the American Revolution inevitable. Bunker Hill brings alive the...
How George Washington Fleeced the Nation
And Other Little Secrets Airbrushed From History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Our view of the famous is one-dimensional—leading figures from history are summarized in history textbooks with one or two lines: Churchill the war-time genius, Gandhi the poor ascetic—but nobody is perfect and even the famous have their quirks and hidden secrets. How George Washington Fleeced...
Washington's Farewell
The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
“A vivid portrait…and thoughtful consideration of George Washington’s wisdom that couldn’t be timelier” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). A revealing look at the first President’s Farewell Address, a still-relevant warning against partisan politics and foreign entanglements.
George...
by R.B. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Here is a concise scholarly yet accessible overview of the brilliant flawed and quarrelsome group of lawyers politicians merchants military men and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history...