Past and Prologue: Politics and Memory in the American Revolution, Hardcover - Michael D. Hattem

How American colonists went from thinking of the British past as their own to creating an "American history" that would play a crucial role in thei...

Reducere. This book explores the foundations of our republic, bringing the reader "up close" to ten men from Pennsylvania and Delaware who each played a cruc...

Reducere. In Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution, Sarah L. Swedberg examines how conceptions of mental illness intersected with Americ...

Reducere. New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood elucidates the debates over the founding documents of the United States....

From bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes a dramatic narrative of the American Revolution that shows it to be more than a fight against the Bri...

Reducere. This is the story of James, John, and Hamilton Armstrong, three sons of a yeoman farmer living on the Pennsylvania frontier at the outset of the Am...

Reducere. The Delaware Bay during the Revolutionary War was vital for trade and home to a host of armed conflicts between British vessels and American privat...

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. 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. In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the American War of Independence hung in ...

A groundbreaking analysis of how the genomic revolution is transforming American society and creating new social divisions-some along racial lines-...

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

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. George Washington and his Continental Army braving the frigid winter at Valley Forge is an iconic image in the popular history of the American Revo...

Explores the deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, and how this connection was understood and experienced by ancient au...

Female loyalists occupied a nearly impossible position during the American Revolution. Unlike their male counterparts, loyalist women were effectiv...

Plecand de la experiente artistice si estetice, culegerea de fata ofera posibile raspunsuri la intrebarile legate de felul in care imaginea si sune...

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...

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...

Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early and Medieval Celtic World brings together a collection of studies that closely explore aspects of culture an...

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

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

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

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of the Culper Ring Spying and warfare have always gone hand-in-hand. From Julius Caesar to modern generals, we have...

Reducere. In the tradition of James Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me, a deeply researched book that uncovers competing histories of how slavery is remembered...

This new book looks at British Politics in the 1760's and 1770's during the American Revolution. He also surveys the development of radicalism in B...

This book explores the convergence of gender, race, and social identities in the often-exclusionary arena of American politics. Contributors examin...

Presents an account of the cultural politics surrounding the memorialisation of the Vietnam War. This book presents a study of American attempts to...

Reducere. DescriptionThe definitive firsthand account of the movement that permanently broke the American political consensus.What do internet trolls, econom...

Reducere. The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia explores the creation, destruction, appropriation, and enduring legacy of one of early America's most important p...

Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and...

In Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (creator of the Somatic Experiencing approach) tackles one of the most difficult and cont...

Reducere. Become an eyewitness to the American struggle for independence, from the events that sparked the war to the signing of the Constitution. This pictu...

Reducere. American Catholic places the rise of the United States' political conservatism in the context of ferment within the Roman Catholic Church. How did ...

Reducere. "A thought-provoking piece of scholarship that sheds light on the complex history of slave breeding in America. Smithers's book will be hotly debat...

Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while t...

The role of large-scale business enterprise-big business and its managers-during the formative years of modern capitalism (1850s-1920s) is delineat...

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...