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Crucible of Power
A History of American Foreign Relations to 1913
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Crucible of Power: A History of American Foreign Relations to 1913 presents a straightforward, balanced, and comprehensive history of American international relations from the American Revolution to 1913. Howard Jones demonstrates the complexities of the decision-making process that led to the rise...
by Abraham Lincoln, George Washington & Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Harvard Classics Volume 43 compiled a collection of essential American documents, comprised of 47 treaties, speeches, historical accounts and governmental documents that cover the United States from the settling of the continent to the founding of the country and through the Civil War and early 20th...
by James Mott Hallowell
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
About the Author
James Mott Hallowell was the Assistant Attorney-General of Massachusetts.
George Washington and Benedict Arnold
A Tale of Two Patriots
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
From 1775 through 1777, George Washington and Benedict Arnold were America's two most celebrated warriors. Their earlier lives had surprisingly parallel paths. They were strong leaders in combat, they admired and respected each other, and they even shared common enemies. Yet one became our greatest...
by Franklin Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) is best known for being one of the Presidents of the United States, albeit one of the least known. And its just as well, since Pierce is widely considered by historians to be one of the worst in history. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface," a Northern politician who sympathized...
by Carlos Tello Díaz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 9, 2013
La rebelión de las Cañadas es un libro que documenta el levantamiento del EZLN, uno de los sucesos más emblemáticos de la historia de México a finales del siglo XX.
Edición actualizada de un bestseller que generó fuertes reacciones y es hoy un clásico del tema.
La rebelión de...
by Juan González Morfín
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Durante los años veinte L’Osservatore Romano fue para muchos europeos más que un diario religioso: era, gracias a su contenido rico en información internacional, un periódico por el que se enteraban de lo que ocurría en el mundo y no solo por el que se mantenían informados de lo que pensaba...
Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor
The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
In 1774 American independence was hardly inevitable—indeed, most Americans found it neither desirable nor likely. When delegates from the thirteen colonies gathered in September 1774, they were, in the words of John Adams, “a gathering of strangers.” With their differing interests and cultural...
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war.
Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom’s...
Patriot Pirates
The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
In this lively narrative history, Robert H. Patton, grandson of the World War II battlefield legend, tells a sweeping tale of courage, capitalism, naval warfare, and international political intrigue set on the high seas during the American Revolution. Patriot Pirates highlights the obscure but pivotal...
The American Revolution
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new form of government based on the idea that...
The First American Army
The Untold Story of George Washington and the Men behind America's First Fight for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
This is the first book that offers a you-are-there look at the American Revolution through the eyes of the enlisted men. Through searing portraits of individual soldiers, Bruce Chadwick, author of George Washington's War, brings alive what it was like to serve then in the American army.
With...
American Crisis
George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The story of the dramatic two years (October 1781-November 1783) after General Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown, when the nascent United States was on the brink of immediate collapse.
Most people believe the American Revolution ended in October, 1781, after the battle of Yorktown; in fact...
George Washington
First in War, First in Peace
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Between 1753, when he was commissioned as a major of Virginia militia, and 1775, when the Second Continental Congress named him Commander-in-Chief of all colonial military forces, George Washington rose from anonymity as a minor landowner and surveyor to become America's first national hero.
With...