Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
This authoritative and complete encyclopedia covers not only the eight years of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) but also the decades leading up to the war, beginning with the French and Indian War, and the aftermath of the conflict, with an emphasis on the early American Republic.
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To Starve the Army at Pleasure
Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775-1783
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
American political culture and military necessity were at odds during the War for American Independence, as demonstrated in this interpretation of Continental army administration. E. Wayne Carp shows that at every level of authority -- congressional, state, and county -- a localistic world-view, a...
by Katherine Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
I have been fascinated by treasure stories all my life and dug deeper into these legends when I was a teenager. I've spent many years of my life fossil hunting, metal detecting, gem mining and consider each item a treasure in itself. However like most of us I dream of someday finding a REAL lost...
The American Revolution
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2003
A newly revised version of a classic in American history
When The American Revolution was first published in 1985, it was praised as the first synthesis of the Revolutionary War to use the new social history. Edward Countryman offered a balanced view of how the Revolution was made by a variety...
Great Issues in American History, Vol. II
From the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Volume II gathers documents from the period of the Revolution through the Jacksonian era, up to the Civil War and the Emancipation. To fit both Colonial and Early National courses, documents covering 1765-1776 appear at the beginning of this volume and at the end of Volume I.
by Robert J. Allison
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
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...
Death or Liberty
African Americans and Revolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
In Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain's 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton plantations,...
by Norman Desmarais
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Guide to the American Revolutionary War at Sea and Overseas chronicles more than 10,500 actions -- far more than other naval histories. Vol. 2 documents 1496 of them which occurred in 1777. It includes the actions of the Continental and state navies, the French and British navies, the actions...
Revolutionary America, 1763-1815
A Political History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Revolutionary America explains the crucial events in the history of the United States between 1763 and 1815, when settlers of North America rebelled against British rule, won their independence in a long and bloody struggle, and created an enduring republic. Centering the narrative on the politics...
Appealing for Liberty
Freedom Suits in the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Dred Scott and his landmark Supreme Court case are ingrained in the national memory, but he was just one of multitudes who appealed for their freedom in courtrooms across the country. Appealing for Liberty is the most comprehensive study to give voice to these African Americans, drawing from more...
by Jane Hampton Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
• The book features 365 devotionals, one for each day of the year. • Each devotional features a 400-450-word story, a relevant scripture, and an application-oriented sentence prayer. • Each week highlights five stories that chronicle the Revolutionary War, followed by two weekend features called...
Dr. Benjamin Rush
The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
A gripping, often startling biography of the Founding Father of an America that other Founding Fathers forgot--an America of women, African Americans, Jews, Roman Catholics, Quakers, indentured workers, the poor, the mentally ill, and war veterans
Ninety percent of Americans could not vote...
by Charles L. Mee Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2019
"Charles Mee has recreated the vivid drama of 1787 . . . Genius of the People is an absorbing look at the incomparable personalities who brought us our Constitution." - Michael Beschloss. Genius of the People is a timely account of the birth of America's national government during the Constitutional...
The Ascent of George Washington
The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Perhaps the most revered American of all, George Washington has long been considered a stoic leader who held himself above the fray of political infighting. What has gone unnoticed about the much-researched life of Washington is that he was in fact a consummate politician, as historian John Ferling...