Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Bacteria and Bayonets
The Impact of Disease in American Military History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
For hundreds of years men have fought and died to expand and protect the United States relying on martial skill and patriotism. Various powerful enemies, from the British to the Nazis, and legendary individuals including Tecumseh and Robert E. Lee have all fallen before the arms of the American soldier....
Eleven Exiles
Accounts of Loyalists of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1982
Eleven Exiles is a personal account of the American Revolution. By focusing on eleven different people who were on the losing side of the American Revolution, and who had to make new lives for themselves in what remained of British North America. Eleven Exiles reflects the major themes of those turbulent...
by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
A selection of nineteen essential essays from The Federalist Papers in their original lengths by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, with notes by Richard Beeman
Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history,...
by Sid Moody
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
This is the 4th episode of 1776: The World Turned Upside Down, a 12-episode serial by Serial Box Publishing in partnership with The Associated Press.
The infant colonial navy meets the mighty Brits. Life on the briny in the 18th c. offered a mean existence along with the tantalizing hope of...
by Sid Moody
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
This is the 6th episode of 1776: The World Turned Upside Down, a 12-episode serial by Serial Box in partnership with The Associated Press.
They were farmers and accountants, high-school dropouts and part-time soldiers, successful merchants and failed corset makers. Yet together they stood together...
The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790–1814
The Struggle for History's Authority
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
This study examines how debates about history during the French Revolution informed and changed the nature of the British novel between 1790 and 1814. During these years, intersections between history, political ideology, and fiction, as well as the various meanings of the term “history” itself,...
by Luke Mayville
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Long before the "one percent" became a protest slogan, American founding father John Adams feared the power of a class he called simply "the few"—the wellborn, the beautiful, and especially the rich. In John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy, Luke Mayville explores Adams’s deep concern...
The Historicism of Charles Brockden Brown
Radical History and the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
A new perspective on the cultural politics of Charles Brockden Brown
The novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the most accomplished literary figure in early America, redefined the gothic genre and helped shape some of America’s greatest writers, including Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, and...
Common Sense Nation
Unlocking the Forgotten Power of the American Idea
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
This sentence is perfectly familiar. We know it as a core principle of our founding....
An Age of Infidels
The Politics of Religious Controversy in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Historian Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflict at the center of early American political culture. He shows ordinary Americans—both faithful believers and Christianity's staunchest critics—struggling with questions about the meaning of tolerance and the limits of religious freedom. In doing...
Race and the Early Republic
Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
By 1840, American politics was a paradox—unprecedented freedom and equality for men of European descent, and the simultaneous isolation and degradation of people of African and Native American descent. Historians have characterized this phenomenon as the "white republic."
Race and the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. No longer the purview of generals, American brigade and battalion commanders increasingly employ operational art. They execute campaigns with implications spanning all levels of war. Historical...
Chile: The Other September 11
An Anthology of Reflections on the 1973 Coup
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
This anthology reclaims the tragic date of September 11 as the anniversary of the US-backed coup in Chile in 1973 by General Augusto Pinochet against the popularly elected Allende government.The selection combines moving personal accounts with a political/historical overview of the coup’s significance,...
Inventing a Christian America
The Myth of the Religious Founding
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in everything from school textbooks to political commentary, it is central to the way in which many Americans perceive the historical legacy of their nation....