West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776

Contributor(s): Author: Gerald Horne Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1...

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

Contributor(s): Author: Laurent DuBoisThe first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally explo...

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gordon S. WoodOne of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution.--New York Times Book R...

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...

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Reducere. In August 1776, little over a month after the Continental Congress had formally declared independence from Great Britain, General George Washington...

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A magnificent history of the American conquest of the West; "a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Revi...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Stephen (Professor Emeritus of History, Professor Emeritus of History, UCLA) AronIllustration(s): ...

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

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War and a major turning point in history. Though it ended u...

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Reducere. For most of the eighteenth century, British protestantism was driven neither by the primacy of denominations nor by fundamental discord between the...

Provides an account of the rebellion of the unprotected frontiersmen and the unfranchised artisans, who constituted two-thirds of the population in...

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Reducere. In the dramatic period leading to the American Revolution, no event did more to foment patriotic sentiment among colonists than the armed occupatio...

Reducere. Juan Bautista de Anza led the Spanish colonizing expedition in 1775-76 that opened a trail from Arizona to California and established a presidio at...

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A day by day chronicle of life in London during the year in which America declared independence, based on a wide range of diaries, letters and news...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in ...

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In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and trac...

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. "I don't know how long before i shall have to go into the field of battle. For my part i don't care. I don't feel afraid to go. I don't believe the...

DescriptionUnflinching and plainspoken, Tessa Swan is not your typical 18th-century woman. Born and bred on the western Virginia frontier along wit...

An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance chronicles the history and development of theatre from the Roman era to the present day. ...

Explore How the Slaves Freed Themselves in the Haitian RevolutionThe Haitian Revolution was a slave rebellion that began in 1791 in the French colo...

Following the creation of the viceroyalty of R o de la Plata in 1776, the elites of Buenos Aires, C rdoba, and Montevideo turned time and again to ...

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

DescriptionThe definitive history of the world's most popular drugUncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancien...