American Revolution

Reducere. In 1764, a small town in the British colony of Massachusetts ignited a bold rebellion. When Great Britain levied the Sugar Act on its American colo...

Reducere. When Abigail Adams was born, women were expected to be just wives and mothers. But Abigail turned out to be so much more. Read all about the fascin...

Reducere. In this stirring call to arms, the activist, spiritual leader, and New York Times bestselling author of the classic A Return to Love confronts the ...

Reducere. Sons of Providence paints a vivid portrait of Colonial life as we follow these founding brothers in their rise to the heights of American commerce ...

Reducere. At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than...

DescriptionIn this book historians and social scientists examine boycotts from the eighteenth century to the present day. Employed in struggles aga...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is a supplement to the textbook Basic Technical Japanese. It introduces 100 new kanji and more than 1500 technical terms that ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution draws on a wealth of new scholarship to create a vibrant dialogue among varied approaches...

Contributor(s): Author: CainAmericana is a music that defies definition. It isn't rock, although it does encompass rock. It isn't folk, but folk is...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Friedrich GentzEditor: Peter KoslowskiThe Origin and Principles of the American Revolution is perhaps one of the most impor...

Reducere. Although Spain was never a formal ally of the United States during the American Revolution, its entry into the war definitively tipped the balance ...

Reducere. Like much of New Jersey during the American Revolution, Monmouth County was contested territory in between the great armies. As the Battles of Tren...

Reducere. In this biography, the acclaimed author of Sons of Providence, winner of the 2007 George Wash- ington Book Prize, recovers an immensely important p...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Bill LichtensteinIllustration(s): 282 colour and black and white photosNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 202...

Reducere. The Revolutionary War has divided the country. Neighbor has turned against neighbor. Family members argue with family members. Angry rumblings of "...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the United States, then keep reading...When the first settlers reached the United States of Amer...

This is the comprehensive biography of one of the least known Revolutionary War generals, Benjamin Lincoln. It explains the events that shaped Linc...

Reducere. The concept of the farmer and shopkeeper pulling rifles off pegs on the wall to fight the British has been the typical image of the American minute...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen President George Washington ordered an army of 13, 000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, h...

We Americans love our food. It's part of what has made this nation great. Our fertile farmlands and the abundance and variety of our agricultural o...

Reducere. A newly revised version of a classic in American historyWhen The American Revolution was first published in 1985, it was praised as the first synth...

Reducere. The reader will be exposed to the memoirs of the people who were present during the American Revolution. These memoirs describe a black British/Ger...

DescriptionIn 1797 the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy took place on the British frigate HMS Hermione off the coast of Puerto Rico...

DescriptionThe first exploration of the profound and often catastrophic impact the American Revolution had on the rest of the world While the Ameri...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the United States, then keep reading... When the first settlers reached the United States of Ame...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Founding Leadership, Dr. Brent Taylor looks at America's Founding Fathers, chooses one major leadership characteristic from their liv...

Reducere. DescriptionOn December 16, 1773, an estimated seven dozen men dumped roughly 10, 000 worth of tea in Boston Harbor. This symbolic act unleashed a s...

James McPherson has emerged as one of America's finest historians. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe voices of the children and teenagers who witnessed the colonies' transformation to an independent nation have seldom been heard. Thi...

Reducere. DescriptionA one-stop compendium of the uniforms and personal equipment for each unit of all forces (American, British, Loyalist, French, German an...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thomas S. KiddAt the dawn of the Revolutionary War, America was already a nation of diverse faiths--the First Great Awakeni...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Jack P. GreeneIn our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right, and which we ever enjoyed till the...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William LavenderWhen Lady Jane, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in Charlestown, South Carolina, in 1776, she ...

Reducere. Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War, oppressive conditions remained in place for the t...

Reducere. In 1764, a small town in the British colony of Massachusetts ignited a bold rebellion. When Great Britain levied the Sugar Act on its American colo...

Reducere. In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, a free, black poet who resisted the pressures of arranged marriage, truly embodying the ideals o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: George H. SmithFor almost a century after the U.S. Constitution went into effect, few Americans seem to have questioned the...

Reducere. Awards🏆Honorable Mention (2010) - PROSE - (U.S. History)Contributor(s): Author: Jill LeporeAmericans have always put the past to political ends. Th...

Reducere. Angel in the Whirlwind is the epic tale of the American Revolution, from its roots among tax-weary colonists to the triumphant Declaration of Indep...

Reducere. In the summer of 1776, Joseph Plumb Martin was a fifteen-year-old Connecticut farm boy who considered himself "as warm a patriot as the best of the...

Reducere. The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun ...

Reducere. When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of th...

Reducere. Moored off the coast of Brooklyn, the derelict HMS Jersey was a living hell for thousands of Americans either captured by the British or accused of...

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, awarded both the Pulitzer and the Bancroft prizes, has become a classic of American historical ...

The New York Times and Washington Post bestseller that sparked a national conversation about America's new progressive, multiracial majority, updat...

"Sutton comes to conclusions that are uncomfortable for many businessmen and economists. For this reason, his work tends to be either dismissed out...

Reducere. The American imagination still exalts the Founders as the prime movers of the Revolution, and the War of Independence has become the stuff of legen...

Upon its first publication in 2001 as the inaugural volume in The New Press People's History series, edited by the late Howard Zinn, Ray Raphael's ...

The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Priz...

Reducere. The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for...

Reducere. George Washington had his own secret agents, hired pirates to fight the British, and helped Congress smuggle weapons, but you won't learn that in y...

Reducere. When the Revolutionary War began, Nathanael Greene was a private in the militia, the lowest rank possible, yet he emerged from the war with a reput...

Publisher: Fordham University PressIllustration(s): 8 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 334Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 27Cover ty...

Reducere. In The Quartet, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis tells the unexpected story of America's second great founding and of the men most res...

A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding Blaze is a s...

Reducere. What do the most famous traitor in history, hundreds of naked soldiers, and a salmon lunch have in common? They're all part of the amazing story of...

Reducere. The overlooked Quaker from Rhode Island who won the American Revolution's crucial southern campaign and helped to set up the final victory of Ameri...

Reducere. The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering systemGetting the facts beh...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Margaret TalbotNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 203 x 30Cover type: Pa...

Before Bailyn's 1967 work, it was generally accepted that the American Revolution was driven by social conflict between settlers and the British go...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A powerful account of how the complex mercantile and military relationships between the British, Dutch, and American territories made the Industria...

In this book, renowned author, and former U.S. Army Colonel, Robert Tonsetic describes and analyzes numerous examples of special operations conduct...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles MorrisIn the first few decades of the nineteenth century, America went from being a largely rural economy, with lit...

Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behin...

Reducere. Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of...

The Second Continental Congress was an assembly of America's brightest minds. It was formed because of the collective desire to be independent of B...

DescriptionThis book presents the case that the origins of American liberty should not be sought in the constitutional-reformist feats of its "stat...

The "best all-around book yet on fracking" (San Francisco Chronicle) from a Pulitzer Prize finalist: "Gold's work is a tour de force of contemporar...