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Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today.
Author : Bernard Bailyn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 030779847X
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today.
Author : Randi Reisfeld
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Readers
ISBN : 9781490018966
Author : Brendan McConville
Publisher : University of North Carolina Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807830659
King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776
Author : Benchmark Education Co., LLC
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781450994910
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Author : Robert V. Morris
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 2011-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1610601041
This commemoration of African-Americans in the U.S. military includes contributions from W. Stephen Morris and Luther H. Smith, one of the most-celebrated Tuskegee Airmen. Other black military heroes featured in the book include Crispus Attucks, the first man to die in the Revolutionary War; Lt. James Reese Europe, who brought jazz music to Europe in 1918; Lt. Charity Adams, commander of the only all-black Women's Army Corps unit during World War II; and Gen. Colin Powell, who served with distinction in Vietnam, became the first African-American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War, and retired a four-star general before becoming the first African-American Secretary of State.
Author : Maureen Alice Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,50 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781606351826
This collection of images assigns faces to an un-illustrated war and tells the stories of our nation's Founding Fathers and Mothers. It is a much-needed contribution to the history of the American Revolution, the history of the early Republic, and the history of photography.
Author : Alan Taylor
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0393253872
“Excellent . . . deserves high praise. Mr. Taylor conveys this sprawling continental history with economy, clarity, and vividness.”—Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the nation its democratic framework. Alan Taylor, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history. The American Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain’s colonies, fueled by local conditions and resistant to control. Emerging from the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, the revolution pivoted on western expansion as well as seaboard resistance to British taxes. When war erupted, Patriot crowds harassed Loyalists and nonpartisans into compliance with their cause. The war exploded in set battles like Saratoga and Yorktown and spread through continuing frontier violence. The discord smoldering within the fragile new nation called forth a movement to concentrate power through a Federal Constitution. Assuming the mantle of “We the People,” the advocates of national power ratified the new frame of government. But it was Jefferson’s expansive “empire of liberty” that carried the revolution forward, propelling white settlement and slavery west, preparing the ground for a new conflagration.
Author : Randi Reisfeld
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,96 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN : 9781490019444
During America's war for independence, ordinary people were forced to risk everything against enormous odds. Meet the leaders, rabble-rousers, visionaries, and everyday heroes who beat the odds and helped make America a land of freedom and opportunity.
Author : T. H. Breen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 31,3 MB
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0674242068
“Important and lucidly written...The American Revolution involved not simply the wisdom of a few great men but the passions, fears, and religiosity of ordinary people.” —Gordon S. Wood In this boldly innovative work, T. H. Breen spotlights a crucial missing piece in the stories we tell about the American Revolution. From New Hampshire to Georgia, it was ordinary people who became the face of resistance. Without them the Revolution would have failed. They sustained the commitment to independence when victory seemed in doubt and chose law over vengeance when their communities teetered on the brink of anarchy. The Will of the People offers a vivid account of how, across the thirteen colonies, men and women negotiated the revolutionary experience, accepting huge personal sacrifice, setting up daring experiments in self-government, and going to extraordinary lengths to preserve the rule of law. After the war they avoided the violence and extremism that have compromised so many other revolutions since. A masterful storyteller, Breen recovers the forgotten history of our nation’s true founders. “The American Revolution was made not just on the battlefields or in the minds of intellectuals, Breen argues in this elegant and persuasive work. Communities of ordinary men and women—farmers, workers, and artisans who kept the revolutionary faith until victory was achieved—were essential to the effort.” —Annette Gordon-Reed “Breen traces the many ways in which exercising authority made local committees pragmatic...acting as a brake on the kind of violent excess into which revolutions so easily devolve.” —Wall Street Journal
Author : Brendan McConville
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 19,72 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807838861
Reinterpreting the first century of American history, Brendan McConville argues that colonial society developed a political culture marked by strong attachment to Great Britain's monarchs. This intense allegiance continued almost until the moment of independence, an event defined by an emotional break with the king. By reading American history forward from the seventeenth century rather than backward from the Revolution, McConville shows that political conflicts long assumed to foreshadow the events of 1776 were in fact fought out by factions who invoked competing visions of the king and appropriated royal rites rather than used abstract republican rights or pro-democratic proclamations. The American Revolution, McConville contends, emerged out of the fissure caused by the unstable mix of affective attachments to the king and a weak imperial government. Sure to provoke debate, The King's Three Faces offers a powerful counterthesis to dominant American historiography.