Rough Crossings. Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution, Paperback - Simon, CBE Schama

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

Simon Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries...

Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality.' In inimitable st...

* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art.

A reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780-1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to surv...

A wide-ranging collection of essays written by the award-winning writer and historian over his forty-year career, chosen by the man himself.

Reducere. As a prominent Catholic in colonial Maryland, according to the law, Charles Carroll was unable to vote, hold office, or present a case in a court o...

Reducere. Set during America's revolution, the fictional journal of Nathan Ross is a compelling coming-of-age tale. Nathan fills these pages with anecdotes a...

Reducere. In this New York Timesbestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and...

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

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...

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...

``With eloquence, wit, passion, and irony, The American Future traces the history of an idea: that of our national destiny....A book of beautiful w...

Reducere. DescriptionMoses Hazen, commander of the Second Canadian Reiment, was an unusual and influential man during the period of the American Revolution. ...

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...

What makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie - in our hearth and home...

Reducere. In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Was...

Reducere. The American Revolution is stained with blood and its ghosts are still lurking in the shadows seeking postmortem revenge. Come explore the haunts a...

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. George Mason of Gunston Hall distinguished himself as a planter, revolutionary patriot, author the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and slave owner....

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Nathaniel PhilbrickNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 214 x 30Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. David Ramsay's History of the American Revolution appeared in 1789 during an enthusiastic celebration of nationhood. It is the first American natio...

Publisher: Regnery HistoryNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 228 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Edward G. ...

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

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 ...

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

Myths! Lies! Secrets! Uncover the hidden truth behind the Revolutionary War with beloved educator/author Kate Messner. The fun mix of sidebars, ill...

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

All too often, when Americans think of the American Revolution, they think only in terms of the events that occurred in the thirteen English coloni...

Featuring full-color artwork, this is the engaging story of Britain's elite light infantrymen in battle during the American Revolutionary War. Duri...

Publisher: American Battlefield TrustAuthor(s): American Battlefield TrustNumber of pages: 112Collection: Maps from the American Battlefield TrustP...

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...

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...

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...

Reducere. Winner of the 2007 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award Samuel Adams is perhaps the most unheralded and overshadowed of the founding fathers, yet with...

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

Reducere. This unique diary, written by one of the thirty thousand Hessian troops whose services were sold to George III to suppress the American Revolution,...

Reducere. By: Robert S. Davis, Jr., Pub. 1979, Reprinted 2019, 268 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-169-8.More than 1, 700 citizens, 1, 000 Patriot soldiers, and ...