Revolutionary category: 2684 books
The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn
An Untold Story of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The most horrific struggle of the American Revolution occurred just 100 yards off New York, where more men died aboard a rotting prison ship than were lost to combat during the entirety of the war.
Moored off the coast of Brooklyn until the end of the war, the derelict ship, the HMS Jersey,...
by Thomas J. Schaeper
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
1616
The World in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
“A stunning overview of the nascent modern world through a thematic exploration of the year 1616 . . . with dozens of fabulous illustrations” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
The early 17th century was a time of enormous change in most regions of the world. The advent of maritime globalism...
The Divided Ground
Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of William Cooper's Town comes a dramatic and illuminating portrait of white and Native American relations in the aftermath of the American Revolution.
The Divided Ground tells the story of two friends, a Mohawk Indian and the son of a colonial clergyman,...
Forgotten Allies
The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Combining compelling narrative and grand historical sweep, Forgotten Allies offers a vivid account of the Oneida Indians, forgotten heroes of the American Revolution who risked their homeland, their culture, and their lives to join in a war that gave birth to a new nation at the expense of their own....
A Few Lawless Vagabonds
Ethan Allen, the Republic of Vermont, and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
A Few Lawless Vagabondsis an account of the three-way relationship between Ethan Allen, the Republic of Vermont (1777–1791) and the British in Canada during the American Revolution, a work of political and military history. Ethan Allen was a prime mover in the establishment of the Republic (though...
America Goes to War
A Social History of the Continental Army
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
One of the images Americans hold most dear is that of the drum-beating, fire-eating Yankee Doodle Dandy rebel, overpowering his British adversaries through sheer grit and determination. The myth of the classless, independence-minded farmer or hard-working artisan-turned-soldier is deeply ingrained...
The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society
War and Society in the United States, 1775-83
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The War fo Independence had a substantial impact on the lives of all Americans, establishing a nation and confirming American identity. The War for Independence and the Transformation of American Society focuses on a conflict which was both civil war and revolution and assesses how Americans met the...
Dangerous to Know
Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In 1823, the History of the Celebrated Mrs. Ann Carson rattled Philadelphia society and became one of the most scandalous, and eagerly read, memoirs of the age. This tale of a woman who tried to rescue her lover from the gallows and attempted to kidnap the governor of Pennsylvania tantalized its audience...
The Circassian
A Life of Esref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Esref Kusçubasi remains controversial in Turkey over fifty years after his death. Elsewhere the man sometimes called the "Turkish Lawrence of Arabia" is far less known but his life offers fascinating insights into the traumatic, increasingly violent struggles that ended the Ottoman Empire...
by Darvin Babiuk
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
A discussion of the ideas that formed the basis of the Russian Revolution and the men that formulated them.
Proletarian revolution.
"Revolutions are the locomotives of history."
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2013
First International Social Democracy Reformists Fabians The Bolsheviks Early Comintert Soviet Science Soviet Marxism Western Marxism French Left Frankfurt School Trotskyists Left Communism Marxist Humanism Market Socialists Guerilla Marxism Maoists National Liberation ...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book is the first to focus specifically upon the relationship between refugees and intercultural transfer over an extensive period of time. Since circa 1830, a series of groups have made their way to Britain, beginning with exiles from the failed European revolutions of the mid-nineteenth century...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
*Includes Revere's account of his Midnight Ride and Longfellow's famous poem "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"*Discusses some of the myths and legends about the Midnight Ride and the Battles of Lexington & Concord, including the debate over who fired first. *Includes pictures of important people, places,...