Revolutionary category: 2684 books
The Idea of America
Reflections on the Birth of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
The preeminent historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history.
More than almost any other nation in the world, the United States began as an idea. For this reason, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood believes that the American...
Revolutionary Spirits
The Enlightened Faith of America's Founding Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Revolutionary Spirits confronts many of the later myths about the religious views of America’s Founders, and brings to life their complex creeds and personalities. It offers clear and candid portraits of Franklin, Washington, Paine, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison as both religious reformers and political rebels, and reclaims their spiritual inheritance for today.
Founding Faith
Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a “Christian nation.” Many on the left contend that the Founders were secular or Deist and that the First Amendment was designed...
by Captain Samuel Richards
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
As a Connecticut captain in America's Revolutionary War, Samuel Richards lived through the carnage and deprivations that were the cost of freedom from England. His diary is important for its vivid descriptions of life in the ranks during battle, starvation, and the great events of his day. Along...
by Daniel W. Barefoot
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Many historians believe the fortunes of the American Patriots during the Revolutionary War turned dramatically on the battlefields of North and South Carolina. This guide travels to such sites in South Carolina as Cowpens, Ninety Siz, Camden, Eutaw Springs, and Kings Mountain. It also includes relevant...
by Iris Moon
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
As the official architects of Napoleon, Charles Percier (1764–1838) and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853) designed interiors that responded to the radical ideologies and collective forms of destruction that took place during the French Revolution. The architects visualized new forms...
Literature, Intertextuality, and the American Revolution
From Common Sense to Rip Van Winkle
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Dealing with Thomas Paine's Common Sense (1776), John Trumbull's M'Fingal (1776-82), Philip Freneau's "The British-Prison Ship" (1781), J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer (1782), and Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" (1819-20), Steven Blakemore breaks new ground...
by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century is one of the classics of anarchist literature.[1] Written in the aftermath of the 1848 French Revolution, it sets forth a libertarian alternative to the Jacobinism which at that time still dominated the republican and revolutionary movements...
Dangerous Guests
Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities during the War for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
In Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding patriotism in the ethnically diverse revolutionary community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. During the War for Independence, American revolutionaries held more than thirteen thousand prisoners—both British regulars and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
This significant historical work produced by the U.S. Army Center of Military History about the overall history of the American Revolution. Excerpted from the Army Historical Series - American Military History, Volume 1, Second Edition, it provides a great overview of the Revolutionary War from the...
God of Liberty
A Religious History of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Before the Revolutionary War, America was a nation divided by different faiths. But when the war for independence sparked in 1776, colonists united under the banner of religious freedom. Evangelical frontiersmen and Deist intellectuals set aside their differences to defend a belief they shared, the...
Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace
China's Youth in the Rustication Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
In Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace, Yihong Pan tells her personal story, and that of her generation of urban middle school graduates sent to the countryside during China's Rustication Movement. Based on interviews, reminiscences, diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts, the work examines the...
The American Constitutional Tradition
Colonial Charters, Covenants, and Revolutionary State Constitutions, 1578–1780
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
The book is a work of non-fiction. The book is a historical analysis of the evolution of a uniquely American constitutionalism that began with the original English royal charters for the exploration and exploitation of North America. When the U.S. Constitution was written in 1787, the accepted conception...
by Alan Gallay
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Colonial and Revolutionary America takes a regional approach to understanding the peoples and colonies of early America. It places early America into an Atlantic and comparative context, with emphasis on the impact of trade, warfare, migration, and the vast cultural exchange that took place among...