Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013. — 320 p. The history of the American rebellion against England, written by one of America’s preeminent eighteenth-century historians, differs from many views of the Revolution. It is not colored by excessive worship of the Founding Fathers but, instead, permeated by sympathy for all those involved in the conflict. Alden has taken...
Harper, 2010. — 496 p. The American Revolution was not simply a battle between the independence-minded colonists and the oppressive British. As Thomas B. Allen reminds us, it was also a savage and often deeply personal civil war, in which conflicting visions of America pitted neighbor against neighbor and Patriot against Tory on the battlefield, on the village green, and even...
Harper, 2010. — 496 p. The American Revolution was not simply a battle between the independence-minded colonists and the oppressive British. As Thomas B. Allen reminds us, it was also a savage and often deeply personal civil war, in which conflicting visions of America pitted neighbor against neighbor and Patriot against Tory on the battlefield, on the village green, and even...
Harper Pub, 2010. - 496 p.
A Sweeping, Dramatic History of the Americans Who Chose to Side with the British in the Revolution
The American Revolution was not simply a battle between independence-minded colonists and the oppressive British. As Thomas B. Allen reminds us, it was also a savage and often deeply personal civil war, in which conflicting visions of America pitted...
Oxford University Press, 2011. - 128 pages. In a concise history of a seminal episode, there is always the danger of a narrative that is a mile wide and an inch thick. Allison, professor of history at Suffolk University, generally avoids this pitfall by effectively concentrating on the major issues and events of the American Revolution. In describing the political context of...
University Press of New England, 2013. — 457 p. In this dramatic retelling of one of history’s great “what-ifs,” Mark R. Anderson examines the American colonies’ campaign to bring Quebec into the Continental confederation and free the Canadians from British “tyranny.” This significant reassessment of a little-studied campaign examines developments on both sides of the border...
University of North Carolina Press, 2017. — 395 р. Andrew Pickens (1739-1817), the hard-fighting South Carolina militia commander of the American Revolution, was the hero of many victories against British and Loyalist forces. In this book, Rod Andrew Jr. offers an authoritative and comprehensive biography of Pickens the man, the general, the planter, and the diplomat. Andrew...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 305 p. In the dramatic few years when colonial Americans were galvanized to resist British rule, perhaps nothing did more to foment anti-British sentiment than the armed occupation of Boston. As If an Enemy's Country is Richard Archer's gripping narrative of those critical months between October 1, 1768 and the winter of 1770 when Boston was an...
Lyons Press, 2020. — 352 p. The American Revolution was a war, but it was also a time, a span of history, in which some people fought, but most just lived. They thought, acted, worked, raised families, worshipped, built, sold, bought, and tried to live as best they could in a time of hope, anxiety, despair, loss, gain, and, above all, disruption. In the Time of the Revolution...
University of North Carolina Press, 1998. — 231 p. The battle of Cowpens was a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War in the South and stands as perhaps the finest American tactical demonstration of the entire war. On 17 January 1781, Daniel Morgan's force of Continental troops and militia routed British regulars and Loyalists under the command of Banastre Tarleton. The...
University of North Carolina Press, 2009. — 321 p. On 15 March 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the American Revolution at the Guilford Courthouse in piedmont North Carolina. Although victorious, Cornwallis declared the conquest of the Carolinas impossible. He made the fateful decision...
Harvard University Press, 2017. — 381 p. The leaders of the American Revolution, writes the distinguished historian Bernard Bailyn, were radicals. But their concern was not to correct inequalities of class or income, not to remake the social order, but to "purify a corrupt constitution and fight off the apparent growth of prerogative power." They wished, in other words, to mend...
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Globe Pequot, 2021. — 214 p. The American Revolution is stained with blood and its ghosts are still lurking in the shadows seeking postmortem revenge. Come explore the haunts associated with the colonial rebels' fight for independence, from an aura of disaster lingering from the "shot heard round the world" in Concord, Massachusetts, to the battle cries of our forefathers in...
History Press, 2017. — 162 p. 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 colonies, Parliament was not prepared for Boston's backlash. For the next decade, Loyalists and rebels harried one another as both sides revolted and betrayed, punished and murdered. Samuel Adams and John...
Routledge, 2014. — 224 p. Adult/High School-Clear, colorful maps and a thorough, yet concise text make this a work to be considered wherever colonial American history is studied. Although the emphasis is on the American Revolution, the scope is much broader-from settlement to 1820. Chronologically arranged, each chapter opens with an overview, followed by readable double-page...
Sourcebooks, 2016. — 432 p. A provocative new look at the pivotal start of America's fight for freedom... In this gripping history, Derek W. Beck draws on meticulous new research and previously unpublished documents to reveal the full story that ignited the Revolution ― told from both the British and the American sides. The Revolutionary War did not begin with the Declaration...
Sourcebooks, 2016. — 432 p. A provocative new look at the pivotal start of America's fight for freedom... In this gripping history, Derek W. Beck draws on meticulous new research and previously unpublished documents to reveal the full story that ignited the Revolution ― told from both the British and the American sides. The Revolutionary War did not begin with the Declaration...
Basic Books, 2013. — 529 p. In 1774 American independence was hardly inevitable--indeed, most Americans found it neither desirable nor likely. When delegates from the thirteen colonies gathered in September 1774, they were, in the words of John Adams, "a gathering of strangers." With their differing interests and cultural perspectives, perhaps the only thing that bound them...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 254 p. Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America...
Casemate, 2014. — 336 p. A Few Lawless Vagabonds is an account of the three-way relationship between Ethan Allen, the Republic of Vermont (17771791) and the British in Canada during the American Revolution, a work of political and military history. Ethan Allen was a prime mover in the establishment of the Republic (though he was a captive of the British, 17751778), then led...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 159 p. The military campaign ending at Princeton on January 7, 1777 was "the feat that turned the scale," spurring the American Colonies on to Revolution. The Campaign of Princeton tells the fascinating story of this critical event. Originally published in 1948.
The History Press, 2021. — 416 p. The bitter and often bloody fight which accompanied the emergence of the United States of America as an independent force on the world stage has always been a subject of immense interest as well as of much debate and controversy. By reference to a wide range of source material, The War for American Independence conveys vividly the immediacy of...
Arcadia Publishing, 2011. — 192 p. A look at Westchester County’s place in the American Revolution and Washington’s plan to trick Cornwallis and march to Yorktown. During the summer of 1781, the armies of Generals Washington and Rochambeau were encamped in lower Westchester County at Dobbs Ferry, Ardsley, Hartsdale, Edgemont, and White Plains. It was a time of military deadlock...
University Press of Mississippi, 1999. — 182 p. A rich and rewarding investigation of the role of the newspapers in defining race, color, and slavery at the birth of the American nation. Bradley's analysis of slavery as metaphor in revolutionary-era journalism becomes a powerful explanation of how the patriot press found the language that disseminated ideas and attitudes on...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing, 2021. — 495 p. From best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands comes a gripping, page-turning narrative of the American Revolution that shows it to be more than a fight against the British: it was also a violent battle among neighbors forced to choose sides, Loyalist or Patriot. What causes people to forsake their country and...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing, 2021. — 494 p. From best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes a gripping, page-turning narrative of the American Revolution that shows it to be more than a fight against the British: it was also a violent battle among neighbors forced to choose sides, Loyalist or Patriot. What causes people to forsake their country and take arms...
Simon and Schuster, 2016. — 320 p. This is George Washington in the surprising role of political strategist. T.H. Breen introduces us to a George Washington we rarely meet. During his first term as president, he decided that the only way to fulfill the Revolution was to take the new federal government directly to the people. He organized an extraordinary journey carrying him to...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 401 p. The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome difference and create a common cause capable of galvanizing resistance. In a richly...
Harvard University Press, 2019. — 262 p. T. H. Breen introduces us to the ordinary men and women who took responsibility for the course of the American revolution. Far from the actions of the Continental Congress and the Continental Army, they took the reins of power and preserved a political culture based on the rule of law, creating America’s political identity in the process.
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2012. — 320 p. Struggling against unjust taxation and British intervention in colonial affairs, the colonies that would come to be part of the United States of America were ripe for revolution in the late eighteenth century. Led by impassioned individuals, Americans waged a series of protests against the British that eventually led to the...
Conshohocken: Combined Pub., 1999. — 253 p. The opening campaign of the American Revolution was the one which established the popular image of this conflict forever after. In later campaigns George Washington was to build a European-style army of reasonable proficiency, with adequate uniforms and weaponry. It was in Boston and its surrounding villages, however, that the...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 384 p. General Benedict Arnold's failed attempt to betray the fortress of West Point to the British in 1780 stands as one of the most infamous episodes in American history. In the light of a shining record of bravery and unquestioned commitment to the Revolution, Arnold's defection came as an appalling shock. Contemporaries believed he had been...
Wiley, 1999. — 464 p. A brilliant account of the proud and ferocious American fighters who stood up to the British forces in savage battles crucial in deciding both the fate of the Carolina colonies and the outcome of the war. A tense, exciting historical account of a little known chapter of the Revolution, displaying history writing at its best. John Buchanan offers us a...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing, 2014. — 448 p. Written from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but nobody could prevent. In this powerful but fair-minded narrative, British author Nick Bunker tells...
N.-Y.: Facts On File, 2007. - 481 p.
ISBN: 978-0-8160-6482-3
While the American Revolution officially began in Lexington, Massachusetts, in April 1775, the seeds of rebellion had been sown for decades. The struggle for representation in the British Parliament left many colonists eager to seek out independence. After "the shot heard 'round the world," loyalty to Great Britain...
Basic Books, 2008. — 364 p. Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown, and just over 6,800 died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons--more...
Toronto: Dundurn, 2011. — 276 p. During the American Revolution and the border conflicts that followed, Simon Girty’s name struck terror into the hearts of U.S. settlers in the Ohio Valley and the territory of Kentucky. Girty (1741-1818) had lived with the Natives most of his life. Scorned by his fellow white frontiersmen as an "Indian lover", Girty became an Indian agent for...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 256 p. On January 17, 1776, one week after Thomas Paine published his incendiary pamphlet Common Sense, Connecticut minister Samuel Sherwood preached an equally patriotic sermon. "God Almighty, with all the powers of heaven, are on our side," Sherwood said, voicing a sacred justification for war that Americans would invoke repeatedly throughout...
University of South Carolina Press, 2012. — 416 p. Building on the work of his 1989 book The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays, accomplished historian Robert M. Calhoon returns to the subject of internal strife in the American Revolution with Tory Insurgents. This volume collects revised, updated versions of eighteen groundbreaking articles, essays, and chapters published...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 347 p. The cities of eighteenth-century America packed together tens of thousands of colonists, who met each other in back rooms and plotted political tactics, debated the issues of the day in taverns, and mingled together on the wharves or in the streets. In this fascinating work, historian Benjamin L. Carp shows how these various urban meeting...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 360 p. New York City, the strategic center of the Revolutionary War, was the most important place in North America in 1776. That summer, an unruly rebel army under George Washington repeatedly threatened to burn the city rather than let the British take it. Shortly after the Crown’s forces took New York City, much of it mysteriously burned to the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. — 328 p. In a world rife with conflict and tension, how does a great power prosecute an irregular war at a great distance within the context of a regional struggle, all within a global competitive environment? The question, so pertinent today, was confronted by the British nearly 250 years ago during the American War for Independence. And the...
University of North Carolina Press, 2021. — 417 p. For most of the eighteenth century, British protestantism was driven neither by the primacy of denominations nor by fundamental discord between them. Instead, it thrived as part of a complex transatlantic system that bound religious institutions to imperial politics. As Katherine Carte argues, British imperial protestantism...
Chicago Review Press, 2015. — 239 p. A commemoration of the brave yet largely forgotten women who served in America's War of Independence Every schoolchild knows about Paul Revere's 20-mile ride to warn that the British were coming. Far fewer know that 16-year-old Sybil Ludington rode twice as far on her horse Star in order to help her father, Colonel Ludington, muster his...
Fordham University Press, 1999. — 316 p. The King's Ranger explores not only military history but also such aspects of the American past as colonial migration, upheaval in the backcountry... and the formation of new settlements in the Caribbean. While the beginning and ending portions focusing on Thomas Brown's pre- and post-american life, respectively, are somewhat dry and...
Praeger, 2006. — 265 p. American independence was won not just with ideas and words, but also through force of arms. A key element of that battlefield victory was the combat leadership provided by a fierce list of hard-fighting warriors at the regimental, brigade, and division echelons or their naval equivalents. Founding Fighters recounts the stories of fifteen of the American...
Sourcebooks, 2006. — 416 p. This is the first book that offers a you-are-there look at the American Revolution through the eyes of the enlisted men. Through searing portraits of individual soldiers, Bruce Chadwick, author of George Washington's War, brings alive what it was like to serve then in the American army. With interlocking stories of ordinary Americans, he evokes what...
Charles River Editors Press, 2018. — 75 p. With European nations unceasingly at war, soldiers from one side or the other often found themselves in disfavor, were marked men in exile, or were fleeing from a superior force. To General George Washington’s good fortune, a few found their way to the colonies to join in the cause. Some were adventurers recently cut off from their own...
University of Virginia Press, 2011. — 320 p. Thousands of British American mainland colonists rejected the War for American Independence. Shunning rebel violence as unnecessary, unlawful, and unnatural, they emphasized the natural ties of blood, kinship, language, and religion that united the colonies to Britain. They hoped that British military strength would crush the...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. — 304 p. Focusing on the revolutionary movement in the Fort Cumberland region of Nova Scotia in 1775-1776, Ernest Clarke explores why supporters of American independence did not prevail in this British North American colony. He reveals how the siege of Fort Cumberland shaped the attitudes of Nova Scotians to the revolution and to their...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 622 p. — (Blackwell Companions to American History). A Companion to Thomas Jefferson presents a state-of-the-art assessment and overview of the life and legacy of Thomas Jefferson through a collection of essays grounded in the latest scholarship. - Features essays by the leading scholars in the field, including Pulitzer Prize winners Annette Gordon-Reed...
Boydell Press, 2004. — 198 p. America's Declaration of Independence, while endeavouring to justify a break with Great Britain, simultaneously proclaimed that the colonists had not been `wanting in attention to our British brethren', but that they had `been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity'. This overstatement has since been modified in comprehensive histories of...
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 221 p. The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists' formal Declaration of Independence in 1776, the struggle has taken on something a mythic character, especially in the United States. From the Boston Tea Party to Paul Revere's ride to raise...
Barnsley: Pen and Sword Maritime, 2023. — 267 p. While many books have been written on the naval history of the Revolution, this is one of the first to treat it in its entirety as an Atlantic-wide conflict. While its geographical scope is vast, it features overlooked aspects of the war in which sloops and barges fought, actions which proved to be as decisive as the familiar...
Barnsley: Pen and Sword Maritime, 2023. — 267 p. While many books have been written on the naval history of the Revolution, this is one of the first to treat it in its entirety as an Atlantic-wide conflict. While its geographical scope is vast, it features overlooked aspects of the war in which sloops and barges fought, actions which proved to be as decisive as the familiar...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. — 448 p. The Battle of Saratoga in 1777 ended with British general John Burgoyne’s troops surrendering to the American rebel army commanded by General Horatio Gates. Historians have long seen Burgoyne’s defeat as a turning point in the American Revolution because it convinced France to join the war on the side of the colonies, thus ensuring...
Goose Lane Editions, 2003. — 140 p. Few Canadians realize how close the colony of Nova Scotia came to joining the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Many Nova Scotians were immigrants from New England. Between family ties and unrestrained privateering, there was much sympathy in Nova Scotia for the American Patriots. In Hope Restored, Robert Dallison tells the story of how the...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2018. — 362 p. George C. Daughan’s magnificently detailed account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord (1775) challenges the prevailing narrative of the American War of Independence. It was, Daughan argues, based as much in economic concerns as political ones. When Massachusetts militiamen turned out in overwhelming numbers to fight the British, they...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. — 432 p. — ISBN: 978-0-393245-72-1. The untold story of the fight for the Hudson River Valley, control of which, both the Americans and the British firmly believed, would determine the outcome of the Revolutionary War. No part of the country was more contested during the American Revolution than New York City, the Hudson River, and the surrounding...
Casemate, 2019. — 312 p. This is a comprehensive look at how France influenced the American Revolutionary War in a variety of ways; intellectually, financially, and militarily. It raises the crucial question of whether America could have won its independence without the aid of France. The book begins with an overview of the intellectual and ideological contributions of the French...
Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. — 288 p. The French were the archenemies of the British and her American colonies, particularly after the French and Indian War which was begun by George Washington. So, why did America look to the French as their principal ally in the American Revolution and why did General George Washington choose a Frenchman as his chief engineer? This biography...
Crown Forum, 2008. — 256 p.
Two of the most influential figures in American history. Two opposing political philosophies. Two radically different visions for America. Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were without question two of the most important Founding Fathers. They were also the fiercest of rivals. Of these two political titans, it is Jefferson—–the revered author...
McFarland, 2018. — 280 p. Without the support of American women, victory in the Revolutionary War would not have been possible. They followed the Continental Army, handling a range of jobs that were usually performed by men. On the orders of General Washington, some were hired as nurses for $2 per month and one full ration per day--disease was rampant and nurse mortality was high....
Liveright, 2022. — 344 p. The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America’s first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels that truly revealed the new nation’s character - above all, its ambition and entrepreneurial ethos. In Rebels at Sea, best-selling historian Eric Jay...
Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2010. — 524 p. This book focuses not only on those officers residing within the borders of the 13 rebellious American colonies, but also on those of the Canadian command and the officers serving in the Caribbean Basin. Part One lists officers alphabetically, including each officer's dates of birth and death, his home and station in life at the...
Cook Press, 1913. — 459 p. Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben (1730–1794), also referred to as Baron von Steuben, was a Prussian and later an American military officer. He served as Inspector General and a Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was one of the fathers of the Continental Army in teaching them the...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 392 p. A bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representation. Revolution Against Empire sets the story of American independence within a long and fierce clash over the political and economic future of the British Empire. Justin du Rivage traces this decades-long debate,...
Yale University Press, 1987. — 241 p. This introduction to the diplomacy of the American Revolution presents a fresh, realistic, and balanced portrait of revolutionary diplomats and diplomacy. The best single-volume introduction to the diplomacy of the American Revolution that we have. This book certainly will become the new standard account of the subject. The book's many...
University of South Carolina Press, 2017. — 168 p. An in-depth analysis of one of the War for Independence's bloodiest and least understood conflicts. The Battle of Eutaw Springs took place on September 8, 1781, and was among the last in the War of Independence. It was brutal in its combat and reprisals, with Continental and Whig militia fighting British regulars and Loyalist...
Praeger, 2007. — 200 p. Contrary to common understanding, in the backcountry at least, the American Revolution was fought over land rather than democratic ideals. In this book, historian Walter Dunn reveals the true nature of the conflicting interests on the frontier, demonstrating that the primary issues there, land and the fur trade, were, in fact, the basis of the conflict...
Endeavour Press, 2018. — 472 p. A Survey of the military aspects of the American Revolution including an analysis of specific battles and officers. The Boston Tea Party. Brandywine. Germantown. Bunker Hill. Lexington. Saratoga. Charleston. George Washington. Paul Revere. Daniel Boone. Benedict Arnold: these are just a handful of people and battles that shaped the war that...
Endeavour Press — 472 p. A Survey of the military aspects of the American Revolution including an analysis of specific battles and officers. The Boston Tea Party. Brandywine. Germantown. Bunker Hill. Lexington. Saratoga. Charleston. George Washington. Paul Revere. Daniel Boone. Benedict Arnold: these are just a handful of people and battles that shaped the war that birthed a...
Joel Munsell's Sons Publishers, N.Y., 1893. — 360 p. Translated and abridged from German by J.G. Rosengarten. This is an abridged edition of the best history in English of the German troops (i.e. , Hessians, Brunswickers, Waldeckers, etc. ) who fought on the British side in the American Revolution. Nearly 100 pages are devoted to "A List of the Officers...1776-1783, " which...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. — 252 p. George Washington and his Continental Army braving the frigid winter at Valley Forge form an iconic image in the popular history of the American Revolution. Such winter camps, Steven Elliott tells us in Surviving the Winters, were also a critical factor in the waging and winning of the War of Independence. Exploring the inner...
Liveright, 2021. — 400 p. A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it. In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in decades, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Joseph J. Ellis offers an epic account of the origins and clashing...
Liveright, 2021. — 400 p. A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it. In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in decades, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Joseph J. Ellis offers an epic account of the origins and clashing...
Militärverlag der DDR, 1983. — 192 p. The Battle of Monmouth was fought near Monmouth Court House (modern-day Freehold Township, New Jersey) on June 28, 1778, during the American Revolutionary War. It pitted the Continental Army, commanded by General George Washington, against the British Army in North America, commanded by General Sir Henry Clinton. It was the last battle of...
Fortress Press, 2021. — 272 p. The famous words of patriots, such as Nathan Hale's "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country," have echoed through the centuries as embodiments of the spirit of the American Revolution. Despite the immortalized role these quotes play in America's historical narrative, their origins remain obscure. We know little about what...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 616 p. Written by John Ferling, one of America's leading historians of the Revolutionary era, The First of Men offers an illuminating portrait of George Washington's life, with emphasis on his military and political career. Here is a riveting account that captures Washington in all his complexity, recounting not only Washington's familiar...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 577 p. It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations. In A Leap in the Dark, John Ferling...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. - 694 p.
ISBN: 978-0-19-518121-0
Great history books enable us to rethink topics that we thought we already knew. John Ferling's Almost a Miracle alerts us to largely ignored aspects of the war that gave us our independence. At the core of this narrative is the revelatory assertion that victory in the Revolution was achieved as much by...
Bloomsbury Press, 2011. — 448 p. No event in American history was more pivotal-or more furiously contested-than Congress's decision to declare independence in July 1776. Even months after American blood had been shed at Lexington and Concord, many colonists remained loyal to Britain. John Adams, a leader of the revolutionary effort, said bringing the fractious colonies together...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 428 p. Setting the World Ablaze is the story of the three men who, perhaps more than any others, helped bring the United States into being: George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. Braiding three strands into one rich narrative, John Ferling brings these American icons down from their pedestals to show them as men of flesh and blood,...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. — 432 p. Amid a great collection of scholarship and narrative history on the Revolutionary War and the American struggle for independence, there is a gaping hole; one that John Ferling's latest book, Whirlwind, will fill. Books chronicling the Revolution have largely ranged from multivolume tomes that appeal to scholars and the most serious general...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 564 p. — (Pivotal Moments in American History). Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George...
Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. — 340 p. Fisher's book is a history of the American Revolution told from the viewpoint of a British man. The purpose of this history of the Revolution is to use the original authorities rather more frankly than has been the practice with our historians. They appear to have thought it advisable to omit from their narratives a...
New Word City, 2015. — 224 р. With the eye of a novelist and the rigor of a historian, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Fleming delivers a fascinating and vivid account of the Siege of Yorktown. Along with French General Jean-Baptiste Rochambeau, George Washington made an astonishing march through New Jersey and trapped British General Charles Cornwallis and his forces...
New Word City, 2015. — 86 p. On April 19, 1775, thirty-eight Americans formed two uneven lines on the wet grass of the two-acre common in Lexington, Massachusetts. They were summoned by the rolling beat of sixteen-year-old William Diamond's brightly painted drum. The order to sound the call to arms had been given by Lexington's militia captain, John Parker. A British column had...
New Word City, 2018. — 224 р. Few writers have told the story of the American Revolution with more grace, clarity, or emotional power than New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming. Here, collected for the first time and posthumously, are Fleming's favorite works. He takes us back to the days of the founders, detailing the surprising facts of American life in 1776,...
Harper Collins, 2009. — 228 p. On October 19, 1781, Great Britain's best army surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown. But the future of the 13 former colonies was far from clear. A 13,000 man British army still occupied New York City, and another 13,000 regulars and armed loyalists were scattered from Canada to Savannah, Georgia. Meanwhile, Congress had declined...
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 508 p. A superb retelling of the story of Valley Forge and its aftermath, demonstrating that reality is far more compelling than myth. The defining moments of the American Revolution did not occur on the battlefield or at the diplomatic table, writes New York Times bestselling author Thomas Fleming, but at Valley Forge. Fleming...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011. — 340 p. Most people believe the American Revolution ended in October, 1781, after the battle of Yorktown; in fact the war continued for two more traumatic years. During that time, the Revolution came closer to being lost than at any time previously. The British still held New York, Savannah, Wilmington, and Charleston; the Royal Navy controlled the...
Routledge, 2021. — 318 p. The Grand Strategy, the imaginative plan to divide the rebellious American colonies, ended in disaster. On October 17, 1777, General Sir John Burgoyne, alone, unaided and stranded in the American wilderness, capitulated with his army at Saratoga in upper New York State. It was the ‘turning point’ of the Revolution, which culminated four years later in...
History Press, 2012. — 128 p. On August 16, 1777, a motley militia won a resounding victory near Bennington, Vermont, against combined German, British and Loyalist forces. Ơ This laid the foundation for the American victory at Saratoga two months later. Historian Michael P. Gabriel has collected over fifty firsthand accounts from the people who experienced this engagement,...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2008. — This book tells the story of the French and American Revolutions in a single, thrilling narrative that shows just how deeply intertwined they actually were. Their leaders were often seen as father and son, but the relationship of George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette, while close, was every bit as complex as the long, fraught history of...
The History Press, 2019. — 224 p. Many of the leaders and heroes of the Revolutionary War are well known to most Americans. Lesser known are those unsung heroes or citizen soldiers who first enlisted with local militias before being assigned to units of the Continental Line and sent away to fight in states and regions far removed from their homes and families. In New England,...
Westholme Publishing, 2016. — 224 p. Known as the “black” regiment, the story of the first Continental army unit composed of African American and Native American enlisted men. In December 1777, the Continental army was encamped at Valley Forge and faced weeks of cold and hunger, as well as the prospect of many troops leaving as their terms expired in the coming months. If the...
Casemate Publishers, 2015. — 329 p. Following their defeat at Saratoga in upstate New York in 1777, the British decided to implement a Southern Strategy against the American insurgents, a plan to “roll up” the rebellious colonies from Georgia through the Carolinas to Virginia. Instead, they triggered a savage partisan war of raids, ambushes, assassinations, and large pitched...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 344 p. Surprisingly, no previous book has ever explored how family life shaped the political careers of America’s great Founding Fathers—men like George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. In this original and intimate portrait, historian Lorri Glover brings to life the vexing, joyful, arduous, and...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 478 p. An intimate account of the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of a Quaker pacifist couple living in Philadelphia. Historian Richard Godbeer presents a richly layered and intimate account of the American Revolution as experienced by a Philadelphia Quaker couple, Elizabeth Drinker and the merchant Henry Drinker, who barely survived...
3rd Edition, 2021. — 166 p. — (All About History). The American Revolution was a time when the British colonists in America rebelled against the rule of Great Britain. There were many battles fought and the colonies gained their freedom and became the independent country of the United States. The American Revolutionary War lasted from 1775 until 1783.
Toruń : Jagiellońskie Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 2018. – 289 s. W niniejszej pracy dokonana zostanie analiza porównawcza rozwoju dwóch unii międzypaństwowych – Stanów Zjednoczonych i Unii Europejskiej. Wybór właśnie tych, i tylko tych, dwóch podmiotów nie tylko nie jest przypadkowy, ale ma również uzasadnienie metodologiczne
ABC-CLIO, 2018. — 308 p. This engaging overview of the American Revolution enables readers to consider and understand history with greater intimacy and accuracy through more than 100 primary documents. This book provides American history readers with a handy reference that examines all important aspects of the era of the American Revolution. The author models how an expert...
Arcadia Publishing, 2015. — 159 p. In 1775, Captain Henry Mowat infamously ordered the burning of Falmouth--now Portland. That act cast him as the arch-villain in the state's Revolutionary history, but Mowat's impact on Maine went far beyond a single order. The Scottish Mowat began his North American career by surveying the Maine coast, capturing and confiscating colonial...
Syracuse University Press, 1972. — 372 p. Examines the military and political aspects of the Iroquois' role in the American revolution and describes the impact of the Americans and British on the Indian culture. Prologue. The People of the Longhouse. Forging an Alliance. Hold Fast to the Covenant Chain. An Uneasy Neutrality. Take Up the Hatchet. The Tree Uprooted. A Scourge...
New York: Scribner, 1911. — 472 р. The purpose of the book of which this is the first volume is to present, within the limited space of three small volumes, the essential facts in our military history, and to make such analyses of these facts and such comments upon them as may be useful for the future and interesting for the present. The army has always been a factor of prime...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 224 p. Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization that created deep and persistent tensions within the empire during the colonial era and that the failure to resolve it was the principal element in the decision...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2000. — 795 p. — (Blackwell Companions to American History). A Companion to the American Revolution is a single guide to the themes, events, and concepts of this major turning point in early American history. Containing coverage before, during, and after the war, as well as the effect of the revolution on a global scale, this major reference to the period is...
Savas Beatie, 2021. — 192 p. After a campaigning season that saw the defeat at Brandywine, the loss of Philadelphia, the capital of the rebellious British North American colonies, and the reversal at Germantown, George Washington and his harried army marched into Valley Forge on December 19, 1777. What transpired in the next six months prior to the departure from the winter...
Savas Beatie, 2018. — 192 p. General Thomas Gage penned the above line to his superiors in London, casually summing up the shots fired at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. The history of the Battles of Lexington and Concord were the culmination of years of unrest between those loyal to the British monarchy and those advocating for more autonomy and dreaming of...
Hill and Wang, 2007. — 388 p. The war that raged along America's frontier during the period of the American Revolution was longer, bloodier, and arguably more revolutionary than what transpired on the Atlantic coast. Between 1763 and 1795 westerners not only participated in a War of Independence but engaged in a revolution that ushered in fundamental changes in social...
Westholme Publishing, 2020. — 392 p. Redcoats. For Americans, the word brings to mind the occupying army that attempted to crush the Revolutionary War. There was more to these soldiers than their red uniforms, but the individuals who formed the ranks are seldom described in any detail in historical literature. In Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 240 p. One of leading figures of his day, Roger Sherman was a member of the five-man committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence and an influential delegate at the Constitutional Convention. As a Representative and Senator in the new republic, he had a hand in determining the proper scope of the national government's power as well as...
William Morrow Paperbacks, 2001. — 352 p. At four in the morning on April 19, 1775, a line of British soldiers stared across the village green of Lexington, Massachusetts, at a crowd of seventy-seven American militiamen. A shot rang out, and the Redcoats replied with a devastating volley. But the day that started so well for the king's troops would end in catastrophe:...
McFarland and Company, 2008. — 552 p. From the Battle of Lexington and Concord on 19 April, 1775, up through the reduction of the victorious Continental Army to a single regiment in January 1784, this book is a day-to-day chronicle of the American Revolution, both on the battlefield and in the halls of the Continental Congress. Covered in detail are the movements of not only...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. — 264 p. In 1770, tavernkeeper Abigail Stoneman called in her debts by flourishing a handful of playing cards before the Rhode Island Court of Common Pleas. Scrawled on the cards were the IOUs of drinkers whose links to Stoneman testified to women's paradoxical place in the urban economy of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth...
Knox Press, 2021. — 368 p. Revolutionary Surgeons offers an integrated picture of surgeons as political and military leaders of the American Revolution. Prominent surgeons participated in political activities that ultimately resulted in the breakaway of the colonies from Britain. Surgeons were members of the Sons of Liberty and other groups opposing Acts imposed on the colonies...
Knox Press, 2021. — 368 p. Revolutionary Surgeons offers an integrated picture of surgeons as political and military leaders of the American Revolution. Prominent surgeons participated in political activities that ultimately resulted in the breakaway of the colonies from Britain. Surgeons were members of the Sons of Liberty and other groups opposing Acts imposed on the colonies...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 250 p. How American colonists reinterpreted their British and colonial histories to help establish political and cultural independence from Britain In Past and Prologue, Michael Hattem shows how colonists' changing understandings of their British and colonial histories shaped the politics of the American Revolution and the origins of American...
Lyons Press, 2021. — 272 p. In the fall of 1779 George Washington took his 10,000 men into winter camp at Morristown, New Jersey after six long years of fighting. It would be a brutal winter of suffering, depression, starvation, betrayal, mutiny, treason and an attempt to kidnap George Washington by the British. By the spring only 8,000 men would be left in Morristown with less...
Lyons Press, 2021. — 272 p. In the fall of 1779 George Washington took his 10,000 men into winter camp at Morristown, New Jersey after six long years of fighting. It would be a brutal winter of suffering, depression, starvation, betrayal, mutiny, treason and an attempt to kidnap George Washington by the British. By the spring only 8,000 men would be left in Morristown with less...
W. H. Lowdermilk and Company, 1893. — 534 p. This is the standard reference work on the officers of the Revolutionary War, containing an alphabetically arranged list, with service records, of 14,000 officers of the Continental Army, including many officers of the Militia and State Troops who served during the Revolution. The information given includes the soldier's rank, dates...
University of North Carolina Press, 2022. — 270 p. In this major new history of the Continental Army's Grand Forage of 1778, award-winning military historian Ricardo A. Herrera uncovers what daily life was like for soldiers during the darkest and coldest days of the American Revolution: the Valley Forge winter. Here, the army launched its largest and riskiest operation—not a...
University of North Carolina Press, 2022. — 270 p. In this major new history of the Continental Army's Grand Forage of 1778, award-winning military historian Ricardo A. Herrera uncovers what daily life was like for soldiers during the darkest and coldest days of the American Revolution: the Valley Forge winter. Here, the army launched its largest and riskiest operation—not a...
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 296 p. In the era of the American Revolution, the rituals of diplomacy between the British, Patriots, and Native Americans featured gifts of food, ceremonial feasts, and a shared experience of hunger. When diplomacy failed, Native Americans could destroy food stores and cut off supply chains in order to assert authority. Black colonists also...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2004. — 177 p. In 1776, thirteen colonies declared their independence from Britain. Although they came together to fight a war, the colonies were far from a unified nation. In George Washington: Uniting a Nation, Don Higginbotham argues that Washington's greatest contribution to American life was creating a sense of American unity. In clear...
Simon and Schuster, 2010. — 288 p. This is the rambunctious story of how America came to declare independence in Philadelphia in 1776. As late as that May, the Continental Congress had no plans to break away from England. Troops under General George Washington had been fighting the British for nearly a year—yet in Philadelphia a mighty bloc known as "reconciliationists," led by...
NYU Press, 2014. — 362 p. Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War. The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald...
NYU Press, 2014. — 362 p. Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War. The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald...
Pen & Sword Military, 2023. — 280 p. The American Revolutionary War, fought 250 years ago between Britain’s North American colonies and the British colonial government, was a conflict of global significance. It had a profound influence on the history of the United States, Britain and the wider world, and an enormous body of literature has been devoted to the subject. Yet there...
Pen & Sword Military, 2023. — 280 p. The American Revolutionary War, fought 250 years ago between Britain’s North American colonies and the British colonial government, was a conflict of global significance. It had a profound influence on the history of the United States, Britain and the wider world, and an enormous body of literature has been devoted to the subject. Yet there...
Nowtilus, 2017. — 338 p. Descubra la guerra de independencia de los Estados Unidos de América, el hecho fundacional de un país y ejemplo para tantos otros. Acérquese a una mirada multifocal a un conflicto económico, político, social, ideológico, –pero ante todo bélico– de gran impacto en su época y que fue prolegómeno y referente para las grandes revoluciones del siglo XIX y...
University of Georgia Press, 2022. — 240 p. Efforts upon the waves played a critical role in European and Anglo-American conflicts throughout the eighteenth century. Yet the oft-told narrative of the American Revolution tends to focus on battles on American soil or the debates and decisions of the Continental Congress. The Untold War at Sea is the first book to place American...
Northwestern University Press, 2013. — 279 p. Carol Sue Humphrey's The American Revolution and the Press argues that newspapers played an important role during America's struggle for independence by keeping Americans engaged in the war even when the fighting occurred in distant locales. From the moment that the colonials received word of Britain's new taxes in 1764 until...
University Press of Kentucky, 2014. — 208 p. The figure of John Adams looms large in American foreign relations of the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary years. James H. Hutson captures this elusive personality of this remarkable figure, highlighting the triumphs and the despairs that Adams experienced as he sought―at times, he felt, single-handedly―to establish the new...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 314 p. The Loyalist Problem in Revolutionary New England begins with a snapshot of the region on the eve of the Boston Tea Party. The colonists' Republican tradition helped them spark the Revolution, but their special history also threatened the unity of the United States throughout the Revolutionary War, for Loyalists tried to discredit New...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 448 p. Landon Carter, a Virginia planter, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this astonishingly rich biography, Isaac mines this remarkable document--and many other sources--to reconstruct Carter's interior world as it plunged into revolution. The aging patriarch, though a fierce supporter of American liberty, was...
Author House, 2016. — 128 p. Profiles of Patriots: A Biographical Reference of American Revolutionary War Patriots and their Descendants is a compilation of thirty-one biographies of American Revolutionary War patriots and includes an introduction and brief history of the Williamsburg, Virginia, chapter of the DAR and its founders. This book is a commemorative work celebrating...
Vintage, 2012. — 495 p. On November 25, 1783, the last British troops pulled out of New York City, bringing the American Revolution to an end. Patriots celebrated their departure and the confirmation of U.S. independence. But for tens of thousands of American loyalists, the British evacuation spelled worry, not jubilation. What would happen to them in the new United States?...
University of Wisconsin Press, 1976. — 314 p. Merrill Jensen's "The Articles of Confederation" is a great review of a truly neglected form of government. Jensen shatters the Federalists myths of "national government" and the Continental Congress inheriting the powers of the British Parliament. Jensen details the beginnings of the federal union in 1774 with the collapse of the...
History Press, 2009. — 158 p. In 1778, New York State Patriots forced colonists loyal to the British government to flee north into what became Ontario and Quebec. Many of the defiant young British Americans soon returned south as soldiers, spies and scouts to fight for their multigenerational farms along the Mohawk River, Lake Champlain and Hudson River Valleys. Eventually...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. — 304 p. In Occupied America, Donald F. Johnson chronicles the everyday experience of ordinary people living under military occupation during the American Revolution. Focusing on day-to-day life in port cities held by the British Army, Johnson recounts how men and women from a variety of backgrounds navigated harsh conditions, mitigated...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. — 336 p. Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolutionary War was not a limited and restrained struggle for political self-determination. From the onset of hostilities, British authorities viewed their American foes as traitors to be punished, and British abuse of American prisoners, both tacitly condoned and at times officially...
St. Martin's Press, 2014. — 288 p. Band of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for our independence. Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are less familiar. Yet the dreams of the politicians and theorists only became real because fighting men were willing to take on the grim, risky, brutal work of war. We know Fort Knox,...
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2021. — 163 р. The wild and suspenseful story of one of the most crucial and least known campaigns of the Revolutionary War when America’s scrappy navy took on the full might of Britain’s sea power.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2021. — 163 р. The wild and suspenseful story of one of the most crucial and least known campaigns of the Revolutionary War when America’s scrappy navy took on the full might of Britain’s sea power.
University of North Carolina Press, 1990. — 304 p. Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women's eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman's war. The women of the army toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers, suppliers of food and...
Henry Holt and Company, 2014. — 464 p. Before the Civil War splintered the young country, there was another conflict that divided friends and family--the Revolutionary War. Prior to the French and Indian War, the British government had taken little interest in their expanding American empire. Years of neglect had allowed America's fledgling democracy to gain power, but by 1760...
Knox Press, 2020. — 432 p. While the American Revolution seemed on the verge of defeat on December 25, 1776, George Washington had assessed the weaknesses and strengths of his situation, and while steadfastly focusing on ultimate victory, reacted to the complex situation and developments over the next ten days to turn the psychological—if not the strictly military—situation...
Liberty Fund, 2003. - 675 р. In the fall of 2002, Liberty Fund published noted historian Bernhard Knollenberg’s Origin of the American Revolution. Now Liberty Fund proudly announces the publication of the second volume of Knollenberg’s masterwork on the American Revolution. Knollenberg describes Growth of the American Revolution as...an Account of the Change in the Minds and...
University of North Carolina Press, 2009. — 352 p. In the wake of American independence, it was clear that the new United States required novel political forms. Less obvious but no less revolutionary was the idea that the American people needed a new understanding of the self. Sensibility was a cultural movement that celebrated the human capacity for sympathy and sensitivity to...
The History Press, 2016. — 211 p. On the night of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere arrived at the parsonage of Reverend Jonas Clarke to deliver a warning to its occupants, including Samuel Adams and John Hancock. The following morning brought the first shots of the American Revolution to a community Clarke inspired to face such a harsh reality. He called on his parish to oppose...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. — 396 p. Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they constituted a third of the British army in North America, and thousands of them were imprisoned by the Americans. Despite the importance of Germans in the...
Kent State University Press, 2014. — 444 p. This solid, workmanlike monograph, based on impressive research and laced with first rate maps gives the reader a greater appreciation of the performance of the states and their leaders in the northern theater of the war. And it shows that Washington was flexible in his use of the militia, which at times surprised him with its turnout...
Citadel Press, 2021. — 256 p. A thorough, long-overdue study of Black Americans’ contributions during the War of Independence. An important piece of American and African American history. In this enlightening and informative work, military historian Lt. Col. Michael Lee Lanning (ret.) reveals the little-known, critical, and heroic role African Americans played in the American...
University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. — 320 p. In the late eighteenth century, a disgruntled resident of Maine complained that Maine was nothing but "an insignificant colony to Massachusetts." That remark has a validity for both the history of Maine and history about Maine. Since the middle of the seventeenth century, the powerful Massachusetts Bay Colony had exercised an...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2019. — 240 p. There is perhaps no more powerful sentence in human history, written in Philadelphia in the oppressively hot summer of 1776: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."...
Grub Street Publishers, 2013. — 312 p. Hundreds of Men followed Colonel Benedict Arnold northward on his famous expedition to capture Quebec in late December 1775. They joined with General Richard Montgomery, but after Montgomery was killed by enemy fire, his men retreated. Arnold’s troops, however, continued fighting after Arnold fell wounded and only surrendered when...
Savas Beatie, 2008. — 660 p. A brilliant American combat officer and this country's most famous traitor, Benedict Arnold is one of the most fascinating and complicated people to emerge from American history. His contemporaries called Arnold "the American Hannibal" after he successfully led more than 1,000 men through the savage Maine wilderness in 1775. The objective of Arnold...
Stackpole Books, 2018. — 432 p. While history has immortalized George Washington, it has largely forgotten those who helped to propel him to greatness--the thirty-two men who served as his aides-de-camp during the Revolutionary War. Washington relied heavily on these men--among them a young Alexander Hamilton--for help in formulating policy and strategy. George Washington's...
Stackpole Books, 2022. — 375 р. In late August 1776, a badly defeated Continental Army retreated from Long Island to Manhattan. By early November, George Washington’s inexperienced army withdrew further into New Jersey and, by the end of the year, into Pennsylvania. During this dark night of the American Revolution—“the times that try men’s souls”—Washington began developing...
Stackpole Books, 2020. — 288 p. The final meeting of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr took place in in 1804. It ended with Burr mortally wounding Hamilton in a duel. Hamilton and Burr first met in 1776, during the American Revolution. Their wartime experiences would shape their lives as Colonel Hamilton and Colonel Burr recounts. They were both young American officers at the...
Wesleyan University Press, 2015. — 300 p. On September 6, 1781, Connecticut native Benedict Arnold and a force of 1,600 British soldiers and loyalists took Fort Griswold and burnt New London to the ground. The brutality of the invasion galvanized the new nation, and “Remember New London!” would become a rallying cry for troops under General Lafayette. In Homegrown Terror, Eric...
Routledge, 2015. — 200 p. This classic study explores the role of merchant seamen in precipitating the American revolution. It analyzes the participation of seamen in impressment riots, the Stamp Act Riot, the Battle of Golden Hill, and other incidents. The book describes these events and explores the social world of the seamen, offering explanations for their actions. Focusing...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. — 624 p. Historians have long considered the Battle of Monmouth one of the most complicated engagements of the American Revolution. Fought on Sunday, June 28, 1778, Monmouth was critical to the success of the Revolution. It also marked a decisive turning point in the military career of George Washington. Without the victory at Monmouth...
Westholme Publishing, 2019. — 384 p. In the spring of 1778, General George Washington wrote to his friend Landon Carter about a rumored “disposition in the Northern Officers to see me superceded in my Command.” This was as candid a statement as the general ever made about the so-called “Conway Cabal” of patriot officers and politicians critical of his leadership. Most early...
ABC-CLIO, 2016. — 288 р. Without the War for Independence and its successful outcome for the patriots, the course of American development—our institutions, culture, politics, and economics—would have run in radically different directions. From any perspective, the War for Independence was one of the seminal events of national history. This book offers a clear, easy-to-read, and...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 677 p. Utilizing new primary source material from the Papers of George Washington, a documentary editing project dedicated to the transcription and publication of original documents, A Companion to George Washington features a collection of original readings from scholars and popular historians that shed new light on all aspects of the life of George...
Da Capo Press, 2012. — 296 p. The United States was conceived in business, founded on business, and operated as a business-all because of the entrepreneurial mind of the greatest American businessman of any generation: George Washington. Using Washington's extensive but often overlooked financial papers, Edward G. Lengel chronicles the fascinating and inspiring story of how...
Random House, 2005. — 496 p. Much has been written in the past two centuries about George Washington the statesman and “father of his country.” Less often discussed is Washington’s military career, including his exploits as a young officer and his performance as the Revolutionary War commander in chief. Now, in a revealing work of historical biography, Edward Lengel has written...
University of Virginia Press, 2010. — 328 p. George Washington wrote an astonishing number of letters, both personal and professional. The majority—about 140,000 documents—are from his years as commander in chief during the Revolutionary War, from 1775 to 1783. This Glorious Struggle presents a selection of Washington's most important and interesting letters from that time,...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 368 p. How the United States was created—a complex and surprising story of patriots, Indigenous peoples, loyalists, visionaries and scoundrels. The story of the Thirteen Colonies’ struggle for independence from Britain is well known to every American schoolchild. But at the start of the Revolutionary War, there were more than thirteen British...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 368 p. How the United States was created - a complex and surprising story of patriots, Indigenous peoples, loyalists, visionaries and scoundrels. The story of the Thirteen Colonies’ struggle for independence from Britain is well known to every American schoolchild. But at the start of the Revolutionary War, there were more than thirteen British...
University of Virginia Press, 2022. — 264 p. This volume highlights some of the women Washington knew: women who admired and memorialized him; women who provided him love and solace; women who frustrated him; women who worked for or against him. The essays reveal the lives of a diverse group of women, from plantation mistresses to enslaved workers, loyalists and patriots, poets...
Casemate Publishers, 2010. — 432 p. With Musket and Tomahawk is a vivid account of the American and British struggles in the sprawling wilderness region of the northeast during the Revolutionary War. Combining strategic, tactical, and personal detail, this book describes how the patriots of the recently organized Northern Army defeated England's massive onslaught of 1777,...
Harper and Brothers, 1884. — 354 p. Why were Germans fighting in the American Revolutionary War? Why were they fighting for the British? Edward J. Lowell’s classic text on the German mercenaries in the Revolutionary War explains all of these questions as well as many others. From the princes that ruled them to the troops themselves, Lowell gives a complete overview of these men...
The History Press, 2020. — 224 p. Around the North Carolina village of Guilford Courthouse in the late winter of 1781, two weary armies clashed on a cold, wet afternoon. American forces under Nathanael Greene engaged Lord Cornwallis's British army in a bitter two-hour battle of the Revolutionary War. The frightful contest at Guilford was a severe conflict in which troops made...
University of Nebraska Press, 1993. - 565 p.
The events of the American Revolution signified by Lexington, Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, Saratoga, and Yorktown are familiar to American readers. Far less familiar is the fact that, for the British, the American colonies were only one front in a world war. England was also pitted against France and Spain. Not always in command of the...
Vintage, 1998. — 336 p. Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans arrived at Independence to the ways in which, in the...
Pegasus Books, 2018. — 336 p. A vivid and timely re-examination of one of young America’s most complicated figures: the war hero turned infamous traitor, Benedict Arnold. Proud and talented, history now remembers this conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict Arnold remains one of the Revolutionary period’s great...
New York: Osprey Publishing, 2002 — 96 p. — ISBN10: 1841763438; ISBN13: 978-1841763439. The American Revolution has been characterized politically as a united political uprising of the American colonies and militarily as a guerrilla campaign of colonists against the inflexible British military establishment. Daniel Marston argues that this belief, though widespread, is a...
Osprey Publishing, 2023 — 145 p. — (Osprey Essential Histories) The American Revolution, or the American War of Independence, has been characterized politically as a united political uprising of the American colonies and militarily as a guerrilla campaign of colonists against the inflexible British military establishment. In this book, Daniel Marston argues that this belief,...
Princeton University Press, 1987. — 462 p. A persuasive reassessment of the nature of the institution that was in the forefront of the American revolutionary struggle with Great Britain — the Continental Congress. Providing a completely new perspective on the history of the First and Second Continental Congresses before independence, the author argues that American expectations...
Madison and Adams Press, 2019. — 172 p. Joseph Plumb Martin (1760–1850) was a soldier in the Continental Army and Connecticut Militia during the American Revolutionary War, holding the rank of private for most of the war. His published narrative of his experiences has become a valuable resource for historians in understanding the conditions of a common soldier of that era, as...
University Press of Kentucky, 2015. — 290 p. In this description and analysis of the organization of the revolutionary movement in New York, Bernard Mason focuses upon the intricate political alignments which the cause of independence created. He finds that the revolutionaries, contrary to the long-standing thesis, formed a decisive majority, although their effectiveness was...
University of South Carolina Press, 2016. — 344 р. A historical figure's attempts to secure freedom for America and its enslaved population. Winning a reputation for reckless bravery in a succession of major battles and sieges, John Laurens distinguished himself as one of the most zealous, self-sacrificing participants in the American Revolution. A native of South Carolina and...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. — 408 p. Colonel Moses Hazen’s 2nd Canadian Regiment was one of the first “national” regiments in the American army. Created by the Continental Congress, it drew members from Canada, eleven states, and foreign forces. “Congress’s Own” was among the most culturally, ethnically, and regionally diverse of the Continental Army’s regiments—a...
Westholme Publishing, 2013. — 344 p. The Daring Raid to Kidnap a British General in Order to Gain Freedom for the Highest Ranking Continental Officer Captured During the American Revolution. On the night of December 12, 1776, while on a reconnaissance mission in New Jersey, Lieutenant Colonel William Harcourt and Cornet Banastre Tarleton of the British dragoons learned from...
Savas Beatie, 2020. — 338 p. — ISBN13 9781611214659. — ISBN10 1611214653. This biography attempts to set the record straight for a misunderstood military figure from the American Revolution. Historians and biographers of Charles Lee have treated him as either an enemy of George Washington or a defender of American liberty. Neither approach is accurate; objectivity is required...
Harvard University Press, 2021. — 304 p. The dramatic account of a Revolutionary-era conspiracy in which a band of farmers opposed to military conscription and fearful of religious persecution plotted to kill the governor of North Carolina. Less than a year into the American Revolution, a group of North Carolina farmers hatched a plot to assassinate the colony’s leading...
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 327 p. When Americans declared independence in 1776, they cited King George III "for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us." In Quarters, John Gilbert McCurdy explores the social and political history behind the charge, offering an authoritative account of the housing of British soldiers in America. Providing new interpretations and...
Chelsea House Publications, 2010. - 128 pages.
"Discovering U.S. History" spans the complex and varied history of the United States from prehistoric times to the present day. This new chronological set can be read as a whole, providing readers with a comprehensive history, or as standalone volumes, with each title serving as a time capsule of a particular era. Each title brings...
Flatiron Books, 2019. — 433 p. Taking place during the most critical period of our nation’s birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington’s character, but also illuminates the origins of America’s counterintelligence movement that led to the modern day CIA. In 1776, an elite group of...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 760 p.
The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic.Beginning with the French and Indian War and continuing to the election of George Washington as...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 760 p. The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. Beginning with the French and Indian War and continuing to the election of George Washington as...
Cornell University Press, 2014. — 264 p. In Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding patriotism in the ethnically diverse revolutionary community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. During the War for Independence, American revolutionaries held more than thirteen thousand prisoners―both British regulars and their so-called Hessian auxiliaries―in...
New York: Facts on File, 1992. — 140 p. (America at war) An account of the American colonists struggle to gain independence from Great Britain explores the festering tensions between England and the Colonies after 1750, the decision to resist English dictates, and more. Holding the line on breed's hill, 1775: Dr. Joseph Warren: cCommitted revolutionary Undercurrents of...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2018. — 70 p. The Saratoga Campaign (June-October 1777) was a watershed event for the United States. The American conduct of the campaign is a textbook study in the application of the tenets of maneuver warfare principles at the operational and tactical levels. General Schuyler's brilliant shaping campaign against the British Forces as they advanced...
Harper and Row, 1983. — 591 p. An in-depth, scholarly study of the lengthy foreign negotiations that brought peace to the thirteen rebellious American Colonies. Author Richard Brandon Morris (1904 - 1989) was an American historian best known for his pioneering work in Colonial American legal history and the early history of American labor. In later years, he shifted his...
Barricade Books, 2021. — 298 p. America's first international hero, the Marquis Lafayette, risked his life and spent his fortune in the fight for American independence from England. Without Lafayette and the assistance of France, America would never have been victorious during the American Revolution. While being celebrated in America in the 18th and 19th century - including a...
Everything Media, 2010. — 322 p. From the rebellion against "taxation without representation" to the beginnings of American self-government, readers will learn how this unlikely group of colonists shaped a new nation. This book features all readers need to know about this exciting time: The beginnings of colonial unrest and rebellion. The drafting and signing of the Declaration...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 424 p. For five decades John M. Murrin has been the consummate historian's historian. This volume brings together his seminal essays on the American Revolution, the United States Constitution, and the early American Republic. Collectively, these essays rethink fundamental questions regarding American identity, the reasons why colonists felt...
Penguin Books, 2010. — 512 p. In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved...
Greenwood Press, 2007. — 232 p. Nearly everyone in the U.S. has studied the Revolutionary War. Too often, however, historians of the Revolution focus on the activity of the army without noticing what was taking place inside the army. Making liberal use of diaries and correspondence by the soldiers and their families, Charles P. Neimeyer tells the stories of the men and women...
St. Martin's Press, 2011. — 384 p. On June 17, 1775, the entire dynamic of the newborn American Revolution was changed. If the Battle of Lexington and Concord was, in the immortal words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the "shot heard round the world," Bunker Hill was the volley that rocked Britain's Parliament and the ministry of King George III to its core. The Battle of Bunker Hill...
University of Virginia Press, 2013. — 320 p. The enormous popularity of his pamphlet Common Sense made Thomas Paine one of the best-known patriots during the early years of American independence. His subsequent service with the Continental Army, his publication of The American Crisis (1776-83), and his work with Pennsylvania's revolutionary government consolidated his...
Routledge, 2018. — 244 p. Imaginary Friendship is the first in-depth study of the onset of the American Revolution through the prism of friendship, focusing on future US president John Adams and leading Loyalist Jonathan Sewall. The book is part biography, revealing how they shaped each other’s progress, and part political history, exploring their intriguing dangerous quest to...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2020. — 502 p. From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2018 President of the American Historical Association, a groundbreaking book, the first to look at the critical, "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April 1775, from the Boston Tea Party...
University of Virginia Press, 2019. — 280 p. Building on a quarter century of scholarship following the publication of the groundbreaking Women in the Age of the American Revolution , the engagingly written essays in this volume offer an updated answer to the question, What was life like for women in the era of the American Revolution? The contributors examine how women dealt...
University of Virginia Press, 2019. — 280 p. Building on a quarter century of scholarship following the publication of the groundbreaking Women in the Age of the American Revolution, the engagingly written essays in this volume offer an updated answer to the question, What was life like for women in the era of the American Revolution? The contributors examine how women dealt...
Random House Publishing Group, 2019. — 368 p. From an acclaimed military historian, a bold reappraisal of young George Washington, an ambitious if reckless soldier destined to become the legendary general who took on the British and, through his leadership, came to define the American character. How did George Washington become an American icon? Robert L. O'Connell, the New...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2021. — 432 p. On the stormy night of August 29, 1776, the Continental Army faced capture or annihilation after losing the Battle of Brooklyn. The British had trapped George Washington’s forces against the East River, and the fate of the Revolution rested upon the shoulders of the soldier-mariners from Marblehead, Massachusetts. Serving side by side in...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016. — 462 p. In August 1776, little over a month after the Continental Congress had formally declared independence from Britain, the revolution was on the verge of a sudden and disastrous end. General George Washington found his troops outmanned and outmaneuvered at the Battle of Brooklyn, and it looked like there was no escape. But thanks to a series...
Skyhorse, 2022. — 192 p. Discover the untold story of the vital role the Irish played in the American Revolution. George Washington changed the world and saved democracy by defeating the British during the American War of Independence. The Irish role in the American Revolution, the war for the ages, has never been correctly reported. Because many of the Irish who fought were...
University of North Carolina Press, 2022. — 208 p. A Norton original in the Reacting to the Past series, Patriots, Loyalists, and Revolution in New York City invites students to experience the chaos of the American Revolution. In this Reacting to the Past game, the classroom is transformed into New York City in 1775, where Patriot and Loyalist forces fight for advantage among a...
2nd Edition. — University of North Carolina Press, 2022. — 208 p. Patriots, Loyalists, and Revolution in New York City, 1775–1776 draws students into the chaos of a revolutionary New York City, where Patriot and Loyalist forces fight for advantage among a divided populace. Confronted with issues like bribery, the loss of privacy, and collapsing economic opportunity, along with...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 480 p. The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 218 p. Political Community in Revolutionary Pennsylvania challenges the ways we understand popular sovereignty in the American Revolution. Whereas previous histories place undue focus on elite political thought or analysis based on class, this study argues that it was ordinary citizens that cared most about the establishment of a proper,...
University of North Carolina Press, 2021. — 256 p. In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the moment when thirteen clocks managed to strike at the same time. So how did these American colonies overcome long odds to create a durable union capable of declaring independence from Britain? In this powerful new history of the...
Toruń-Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 1997. — 795 s. Słowa kluczowe: Stany Zjednoczone – stosunki zagraniczne – 18-20 w.; dyplomacja amerykańska – 18-20 w.; wojna hiszpańsko-amerykańska 1898 r.; I i II wojna światowa; stosunki polsko-amerykańskie – 19-20 w.
Viking, 2018. — 384 p. In the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat the British Empire was with the help of the French navy. But as he had learned after two years of trying, coordinating his army's movements with those of a fleet of warships based thousands of miles away was next to impossible. And...
Penguin Publishing, 2016. — 444 p. From the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, comes a surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution, and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold. In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental Army under an unsure George Washington (who had never commanded a large force...
Westholme Publishing, 2012. — 284 p. Nine Historians and Writers Investigate the Role of Cavalry in the War for Independence. From the bitterly contested no-man’s-land between American and British lines in New York and New Jersey to the scorching pine forests of the South, the cavalry of both armies fought valiantly throughout the American Revolution. This volume explores...
Westholme Publishing, 2012. — 284 p. Nine Historians and Writers Investigate the Role of Cavalry in the War for Independence. From the bitterly contested no-man’s-land between American and British lines in New York and New Jersey to the scorching pine forests of the South, the cavalry of both armies fought valiantly throughout the American Revolution. This volume explores...
University of South Carolina Press, 2008. — 439 p. Three Peoples, One King explores the contributions and conjoined fates of Loyalists, Indians, and slaves who stood with the British Empire in the Deep South colonies during the American Revolution. Challenging the traditional view that British efforts to regain control of the southern colonies were undermined by a lack of local...
University of South Carolina Press, 2008. — 439 p. Three Peoples, One King explores the contributions and conjoined fates of Loyalists, Indians, and slaves who stood with the British Empire in the Deep South colonies during the American Revolution. Challenging the traditional view that British efforts to regain control of the southern colonies were undermined by a lack of local...
University of South Carolina Press, 2008. — 439 p. Three Peoples, One King explores the contributions and conjoined fates of Loyalists, Indians, and slaves who stood with the British Empire in the Deep South colonies during the American Revolution. Challenging the traditional view that British efforts to regain control of the southern colonies were undermined by a lack of local...
Kent State University Press, 2005. — 100 р. While the main action of the Revolution swirled along the Atlantic seaboard. Ohio was a no man's land between the Colonists' Fort Pitt and the British Fort Detroit. A campaign to neutralize Detroit and win the allegiance of the Indians in Ohio was instigated by General Washington in 1778, and in the fall of that year Fort Laurens was...
University of North Carolina Press, 1995. — 265 p. Originally published in 1961, this classic work remains the most comprehensive history of the many and important roles played by African Americans during the American Revolution. With this book, Benjamin Quarles added a new dimension to the military history of the Revolution and addressed for the first time the diplomatic...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. — 487 p. In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted primarily to family, craft, and the private pursuit of wealth and happiness. None set out to become "revolutionary" by ambition, but when events in Boston escalated, they found themselves thrust into a...
The New Press, 2001. — 386 p. — (A New Press People's History). Narrated from the diverse perspectives of its everyday participants, a readable history of the American Revolution interweaves personal letters, diaries, and other primary source material into an informative study of the battle for independence, the events of the war, and the personalities involved.
Chelsea House Publications, 2007. — 120 p. In Paris, during the spring, summer, and autumn of 1782, three remarkable Americans led the representation of the United States in negotiations that brought an end to the American Revolutionary War. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay worked to bring about British recognition of American independence and a cessation to...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 464 P. In The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution , Dan Robinson presents a new history of politics in colonial America and the imperial crisis, tracing how ideas of Europe and Europeanness shaped British-American political culture. Reconstructing colonial debates about the European states system, European civilisation, and...
McFarland and Company, 2018. — 232 p. Freedom of speech was restricted during the Revolutionary War. In the great struggle for independence, those who remained loyal to the British crown were persecuted with loss of employment, eviction from their homes, heavy taxation, confiscation of property and imprisonment. Loyalist Americans from all walks of life were branded as traitors...
University of Virginia Press, 2018. — 316 p. Europe’s crucial contribution to the achievement of American independence. American independence would not have been achieved without diplomatic, financial, and military support from Europe. And without recognition from powerful European nations, the young country would never have assumed an independent status "amongst the powers of...
University of North Carolina Press, 1996. — 452 p. A Revolutionary People at War is an examination into what Charles Royster proposes is the American character during the time of the revolution, and how that character related to the actions of the Continental soldiers. He covers the entire war through a chronological narration of his evidence to support his notions broken by...
University of Virginia Press, 2011. — 304 p. In his new book, Michal Jan Rozbicki undertakes to bridge the gap between the political and the cultural histories of the American Revolution. Through a careful examination of liberty as both the ideological axis and the central metaphor of the age, he is able to offer a fresh model for interpreting the Revolution. By establishing...
Warszawa, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1974. — 374 s. Chronologicznie praca obejmuje lata 1774 - 1783, to jest od zwołania Kongresu przedstawicieli dwunastu prowincji w Filadelfii (Georgia przyłączyła się później) do podpisania preliminarii pokojowych w 1783 r., kiedy to Anglia uznała niepodległość swych zbuntowanych prowincji jako państwa związkowego.
Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1974. — 370 s. Praca dotyczy zatem tylko początków powstawania unii prowincjonalnej, budowanej w czasie wojny o nie podległość, świadomie czy też z konieczności, przez przedstawicieli stanów zgromadzonych w Filadelfii. Starano się również przedstawić na podstawie opraco wań pierwsze próby współpracy międzykolonialnej w XVII i XVIII w....
Hodder Education, 2020. — 280 p. Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better grades for over 30 years. Updated to meet the demands of today's A-level specifications, this new generation of Access to History titles includes accurate exam guidance based on examiners' reports, free online activity...
St. Martin's Press, 2020. — 965 p. — ISBN13: 9781250163288 In the spring of 1744, a congregation in the small village of Braintree, south of Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, gathered to mourn the death of their minister, the Reverend John Hancock. Outside the church, the heavens opened up. Rain streamed down, drenching the wild bluebells that grew in the high meadows of...
Savas Beatie, 2010. — 288 p. This remarkable new handbook makes studying the Revolutionary War simple and pleasurable. The authors use clear and concise writing broken down into short and easy to understand chapters complete with original maps, tables, charts, and dozens of drawings to trace the history of the Revolution from the beginning of the conflict through the final...
UXL, 2000. — 275 p. Biographical profiles of sixty men and women who were key players on the British or American side of the American Revolution, from John Adams, who became the second president, to Eliza Wilkinson, who wrote of the day British soldiers looted her South Carolina home.
UXL, 2000. — 264 p. Biographical profiles of sixty men and women who were key players on the British or American side of the American Revolution, from John Adams, who became the second president, to Eliza Wilkinson, who wrote of the day British soldiers looted her South Carolina home.
Arcadia Publishing, 2005. — 320 p. In July of 1780, when the Revolutionary War in the Southern states seemed doomed to failure, a small but important battle took place on James Williamson's plantation in what is now York County, South Carolina. The Battle of Williamson's Plantation, or "Huck's Defeat" as it later came to be known, laid the groundwork for the vicious partisan...
Westholme Publishing, 2019. — 255 p. In the summer of 1775, a Virginia gentleman-planter was given command of a New England army laying siege to British-occupied Boston. With his appointment, the Continental Army was born. Yet the cultural differences between those serving in the army and their new commander-in-chief led to conflicts from the very beginning that threatened to...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 784 p. Political science professor Barry Shain has collected 174 letters, papers, petitions, and proclamations from the years directly preceding the creation of the Declaration of Independence that challenge many of the dominant narratives that shape contemporary understanding of this all-important document. Rather than arising from strong...
Flash Point, 2010. — 353 p. Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America's first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he was also one of its greatest war heroes. This accessible biography introduces young readers to the real Arnold: reckless, heroic, and driven. Packed with first-person accounts, astonishing battle scenes, and surprising twists, this is a gripping and true...
NYU Press, 1995. — 262 p. The first full-length biography of the American rebel general who captured St. John and Montreal in 1775, and in December of that year, at the storming of Quebec, became the first rebel general to be killed in the War of Independence. Therefore, Montgomery not only had a significant impact on the American Revolution, but he remains an important...
Stackpole Books, 2021. — 144 p. Using a masterful combination of “artistry and accuracy” (New York Times), nationally renowned historical artist Don Troiani has dedicated much of his career to transforming the modern understanding of what the Revolutionary War truly looked like. His research-based paintings capture the reality and drama of crucial moments such as the 1775...
Stackpole Books, 2021. — 144 p. Using a masterful combination of “artistry and accuracy” (New York Times), nationally renowned historical artist Don Troiani has dedicated much of his career to transforming the modern understanding of what the Revolutionary War truly looked like. His research-based paintings capture the reality and drama of crucial moments such as the 1775...
Barnes & Noble Inc., 1950. — 276 p. A New World. The English Commercial and "Colonial" Colonies. The Proprietary Colonies. People, Land, and Labor. American Secular Life. American Religious Life. Cultural Seeds and Transplantings. Royal Government and It.s Subjects. England Versus France, 1689-1763. Imperialism and Opposition. From Resistance to Independence. Organizing the...
Washington: U.S. Marine Corps, 1975. — 507 p. (eng)
On 10 November 1775 the Second Continental Congress authorized the raising of two battalions of Marines. From this small beginning we have seen the United States Marine Corps grow into a powerful force for the nation''s security. In this volume, through the actions and words of the participants, we read of a small Marine force...
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 304 p. General William Howe was the commander-in-chief of the British forces during the early campaigns of the Revolutionary War (1775-1783). He was an enigma, who appeared on multiple occasions to be on the verge of winning the war for Britain, only to repeatedly fail to deliver the final blow. Howe evoked passionate reactions in the people he worked...
ABC-CLIO, 2015. — 970 p. What was life really like for ordinary people during the American Revolution? What did they eat, wear, believe in, and think about? What did they do for fun? This encyclopedia explores the lives of men, women, and children—of European, Native American, and African descent—through the window of social, cultural, and material history. The two-volume set...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 424 p. The American Revolution conjures a series of iconographic images in the contemporary American imagination. In these imagined scenes, defiant Patriots fight against British Redcoats for freedom and democracy, while a unified citizenry rallies behind them and the American cause. But the lived experience of the Revolution was a more...
McFarland and Company, 2021. — 232 p. From December 1777 through June 1778, the American Revolution achieved a remarkable turnaround. I these months the Continental Army recovered from abject demoralization at Valley Forge to achieve a stunning victory against the British at Monmouth Courthouse. This compelling history chronicles how the war began to turn--from the...
Harper Collins, 2014. — 448 р. Michael Stephenson's Patriot Battles is a comprehensive and richly detailed study of the military aspects of the War of Independence, and a fascinating look at the nuts and bolts of eighteenth-century combat. Covering everything from what motivated those who chose to fight to how they were enlisted, trained, clothed, and fed, it offers a close-up...
University of Virginia Press, 2020. — 244 p. For many common people, the American Revolution offered an opportunity to radically reimagine the wealth and power structures in the nascent United States. Yet in the eyes of working-class activists, the U.S. Constitution favored the interests of a corrupt elite and betrayed the lofty principles of the Declaration of Independence....
Harper Collins, 2008. — 312 p. The first one-volume survey of the American Revolution that is both objective and comprehensive, this outstanding narrative history traces the growth of a conflict that inexorably set the American colonies on the road to independence. Offering a spirited chronicle of the war itself -- the campaigns and strategies, the leaders on both sides, the...
Lyons Press, 2021. — 261 p. John Marshall: The Final Founder demonstrates that not only can Marshall be considered one of those Founding Fathers, but that what he did as the Chief Justice was not just significant, but the glue that held the union together after the original founding days. The Supreme Court met in the basement of the new Capitol building in Washington when...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. — 328 p. Elizabeth and Henry Drinker of Philadelphia were no friends of the American Revolution. Yet neither were they its enemies. The Drinkers were a merchant family who, being Quakers and pacifists, shunned commitments to both the Revolutionaries and the British. They strove to endure the war uninvolved and unscathed. They failed. In...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. — 704 p. From the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a fresh, authoritative history that recasts our thinking about America’s founding period. The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the...
Enslow Publishing, 2015. — 128 p. Through simple, informational text supported by black-and-white and color illustrations, readers will learn about Crispus Attucks, who had an exciting life at sea before going down in history as the first casualty of the Boston Massacre. A Words to Know section at the beginning of the book prepares students to understand the vocabulary they...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. — 286 p. Fundamentally reshapes our understanding of the causes of the American Revolution and the pivotal role foreign news and misinformation played in driving colonists to revolt. "Fake news" is not new. Just like millions of Americans today, the revolutionaries of the eighteenth century worried that they were entering a "post-truth"...
University Press of Kentucky, 2020. — 198 p. Along with Benedict Arnold, Simon Girty was one of the most hated men in early America. The son of an Irish immigrant, he was raised on the western Pennsylvania frontier but was captured by the Senecas as a teenager and lived among them for several years. This able frontiersman might be seen today as a defender of Native Americans,...
University Press of Kentucky, 2020. — 198 p. Along with Benedict Arnold, Simon Girty was one of the most hated men in early America. The son of an Irish immigrant, he was raised on the western Pennsylvania frontier but was captured by the Senecas as a teenager and lived among them for several years. This able frontiersman might be seen today as a defender of Native Americans,...
Simon & Schuster, 2017. — 320 p. The United States Military Academy at West Point is the gold standard for military history and the operational art of war, and has created military history texts for its cadets since 1836. Now, for the first time in more than forty years, the Academy has authorized a new series on the subject that will bear the name West Point. The first three...
University of New York Press, 2009. — 223 p. Fascinating stories of ordinary people in the Middle Colonies (future USA), who remained loyal to the Crown during 1763-1787.
Skyhorse, 2017. — 375 p. Despite his less-than-promising beginnings as the only key Founding Father not born and raised on American soil, Hamilton was one of the best and brightest of his generation. His notoriety has rested almost entirely on his role as Secretary of the Treasury in Washington's administration, yet few realize that Washington and Hamilton's bond was forged...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2015. — 408 p. When the Continental Congress decided to declare independence from the British empire in 1776, ten percent of the population of their fledgling country were from Ireland. By 1790, close to 500,000 Irish citizens had immigrated to America. They were was very active in the American Revolution, both on the battlefields and off, and yet their...
Skyhorse, 2022. — 320 p. Discover the little-known role Alexander Hamilton played in the decisive battle of the American Revolution: Yorktown. Alexander Hamilton and the Battle of Yorktown, October 1781 is the first book in nearly two and a half centuries that has ever been devoted to the story of Alexander Hamilton’s key contributions in winning the most decisive victory the...
ABC-CLIO, 2021. — 355 p. Though the American Revolution is often described within the thematic model of suppression versus freedom, the true significance of the event can be found in its nuances. Explicating complex issues, from slavery and the role of women to matters of diplomacy and strategic warfare, this guide offers comprehensive coverage of the American Revolution...
Walker and Company, 2012. — 414 p. From Lexington Green in 1775 to Yorktown in 1781, one British regiment marched thousands of miles and fought a dozen battles to uphold British rule in America: the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Their story, and that of all the soldiers England sent across the Atlantic, is one of the few untold sagas of the American Revolution, and it sheds a new...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. — 312 p. The Revolutionary War encompassed at least two struggles: one for freedom from British rule, and another, quieter but no less significant fight for the liberty of African Americans, thousands of whom fought in the Continental Army. Because these veterans left few letters or diaries, their story has remained largely untold, and the...
Brill, 2005. — 187 p. — (Amsterdam Monographs in American Studies 12). This collection of essays by Bernard Vincent covers most aspects of Thomas Paine’s life, thought, and works. It highlights Paine’s contribution to the American and French Revolutions, as well as the active role he played in the intellectual debates of the Age of Enlightenment, in particular through his...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 268 p. "As I am engaged in this glories Cause I am will to go where I am called"- so Joseph Hodgkins, a shoemaker of Ipswich, Massachusetts, declared to his wife the purpose that sustained him through four crucial years of the American Revolution. Hodgkins and his fellow townsman Nathaniel Wade, a carpenter, turned out for the Lexington...
Southern Illinois University Press, 2006. — 298 p. A well-disciplined army was vital to win American independence, but policing soldiers during the Revolution presented challenges. George Washington’s Enforcers: Policing the Continental Army examines how justice was left to the overlapping duties of special army personnel and how an improvised police force imposed rules and...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 545 p. 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 the balance. Having successfully expelled the Americans from Canada in 1776, the British were determined to end the rebellion the following year and devised what they believed a war-winning...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. — 416 p. Now an LA Times Book Prize finalist: a timely and fascinating account of the raucous public demand for smallpox inoculation during the American Revolution and the origin of vaccination in the United States. The Revolutionary War broke out during a smallpox epidemic, and in response, General George Washington ordered the inoculation...
Nimbus Publishing, 2013. — 340 p. In an attempt to ruin the American economy during the Revolutionary War, the British government offered freedom to slaves who would desert their rebel masters. Many Black men and women escaped to the British fleet patrolling the East Coast, or to the British armies invading the colonies from Maine to Georgia. After the final surrender of the...
John Wiley & Sons, 2019. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119593-49-2. American Revolution For Dummies capitalizes on the recent resurgence of interest in the Revolutionary War period—one of the most important in the history of the United States. From the founding fathers to the Declaration of Independence, and everything that encapsulates this extraordinary period in American history,...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 210 p. Women of the American Revolution explores the trials of war and daily life for women in the United States during the War of Independence. What challenges were caused by the division within communities as some stayed loyal to the king and others became patriots? How much choice did women have as their loyalties were assumed to be that of...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 255 p. Law's Imagined Republic shows how the American Revolution was marked by the rapid proliferation of law talk across the colonies. This legal language was both elite and popular, spanned different forms of expression from words to rituals, and included simultaneously real and imagined law. Since it was employed to mobilize resistance...
Arcadia Publishing, 2013. — 208 p. This lively history of the American Revolution explores the combat that took place in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Much of New York during the Revolutionary era was frontier wilderness, sparsely populated and bitterly divided. Although the only major campaign in the region would end at the Battle of Saratoga, factional raiding parties...
The Penguin Press, 2006. — 336 p. In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, "What made these men great?" and shows us, among many other things, just how much character did in fact matter. The life of each, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin,...
Modern Library, 2002. — 224 p. — (Modern Library Chronicles). When Abraham Lincoln sought to define the significance of the United States, he naturally looked back to the American Revolution. He knew that the Revolution not only had legally created the United States, but also had produced all of the great hopes and values of the American people. Our noblest ideals and...
University of North Carolina Press, 1998. — 675 p. During the Revolutionary era, American political theory underwent a fundamental transformation that carried the nation out of a basically classical and medieval world of political discussion into a milieu that was recognizably modern. This classic work is a study of that transformation. Gordon Wood describes in rich detail the...
Vintage Books, 2011. — 464 p. In a grand and immensely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose...
Vintage Books, 1993. — 464 p. In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose...
Algora Publishing, 2006. — 235 p. Woods brings together a unique and perceptive collection of documents that not only offer a rare glimpse into the complex mind of Benjamin Franklin the diplomat, but also provide new insights into the French-American alliance against the British.This selection of letters is an important contribution to the body of literature exploring French...
Algora Publishing, 2009. — 330 p. While Jefferson is responsible for a voluminous body of literature, this is the first time an editor has focused principally on his comments regarding war and revolution. The format of the selected letters, as Jefferson wrote them, is preserved whenever possible, and they are presented for the interest of a general readership as well as for...
The History Press, 2012. — 163 p. In late 1775, a few months after the first shots of the Revolution were fired, Benedict Arnold led more than one thousand troops into Quebec to attack the British there. Departing from Massachusetts, by the time they reached Pittston, Maine, they were in desperate need of supplies and equipment to carry them the rest of the way. Many patriotic...
Пер. с англ. – М.: Новое издательство, 2010. – 308 с. – (Библиотека свободы) ISBN 978-5-98379-136-7 «Идеологические истоки Американской революции» Бернарда Бейлина – классическое исследование интеллектуальной атмосферы, в которой сформировался идеологический фундамент Соединённых Штатов Америки – самой амбициозной и самой успешной в мировой истории попытки создать государство,...
Билль о правах США (Bill of Rights) — первые 10 поправок к Конституции США, принятые Конгрессом и ратифицированные штатами к 15 декабря 1791 г. Б. о п. США расценивается как демократическая реформа Конституции. В его основу положена естественноправовая концепция прав и свобод. Поправка 1 гарантирует свободу совести, свободу слова, печати, права народа мирно собираться, обращаться...
Выходные данные отсутствуют (интернет-ресурс).
Билль о правах (англ. Bill of Rights) — неофициальное название первых десяти поправок к Конституции США, которые закрепляют основные права и свободы человека и гражданина. Поправки были предложены Джеймсом Мэдисоном 25 сентября 1789 года на заседании Конгресса США первого созыва и вступили в силу 15 декабря 1791 года. Впервые на...
М.: Прогресс, Универс, 1993. — 3 с.
Выверено по изданию: Соединенные Штаты Америки: Конституция
и законодательство. Под ред. О.А.Жидкова. Перевод О.А.Жидкова.
Декларация независимости США (англ. United States Declaration of Independence) — исторический документ, в котором британские колонии в Северной Америке объявили независимость от Великобритании, принят единогласно Вторым...
М.: Наука, 1988. — 192 с. Книга посвящена изучению негритянской проблемы в связи с войной за независимость США, заложившей основы американской государственности. На конкретном историческом материале прослежено участие свободных и рабов в освобождении страны. Автор показывает, в какой степени революционные преобразования коснулись системы рабства в США после победы американской...
Пер. с англ. Максим Леонович, Д. Голубцов, Олег Мичковский. — Екатеринбург : Гонзо, 2015. — 800 с. — ISBN 978-5-904577-37-7. Книга Роберта Миддлкауфа издана в серии "Оксфордская история США", где каждый том посвящен определенному периоду. "Славное дело" сочетает академическую строгость с живым и привлекательным стилем. Автор, делая масштабный обзор Американской революции,...
Екатеринбург : Гонзо, 2015. — 800 с. — ISBN: 978-5-904577-37-7. Книга Роберта Миддлкауфа издана в серии "Оксфордская история США", где каждый том посвящен определенному периоду. "Славное дело" сочетает академическую строгость с живым и привлекательным стилем. Автор, делая масштабный обзор Американской революции, пересматривает и раздвигает границы популярных представлений об...
Екатеринбург : Гонзо, 2015. — 800 с. — ISBN: 978-5-904577-37-7. Книга Роберта Миддлкауфа издана в серии "Оксфордская история США", где каждый том посвящен определенному периоду. "Славное дело" сочетает академическую строгость с живым и привлекательным стилем. Автор, делая масштабный обзор Американской революции, пересматривает и раздвигает границы популярных представлений об...
Пер. с англ. Максим Леонович, Д. Голубцов, Олег Мичковский. — Екатеринбург : Гонзо, 2015. — 800 с. — ISBN: 978-5-904577-37-7. Для читателей старше 16 лет. Книга Роберта Миддлкауфа издана в серии "Оксфордская история США", где каждый том посвящен определенному периоду. "Славное дело" сочетает академическую строгость с живым и привлекательным стилем. Автор, делая масштабный обзор...
Пер. с англ. Максим Леонович, Д. Голубцов, Олег Мичковский. — Екатеринбург : Гонзо, 2015. — 800 с. — ISBN: 978-5-904577-37-7. Для читателей старше 16 лет. Книга Роберта Миддлкауфа издана в серии "Оксфордская история США", где каждый том посвящен определенному периоду. "Славное дело" сочетает академическую строгость с живым и привлекательным стилем. Автор, делая масштабный обзор...
София: Държавно издателство Наука и изкуство, 1977. — 157 с. Книгата е едно от малкото изследвания на български за американската история и то от български автор. Основна цел на изследването е да се проследи зараждането на английските колонии в Северна Америка и по-късния им конфликт с Англия.
М.: Наука, 1980. — 312 с. Автор исследует идейное размежевание в США в период буржуазной революции XVIII в. В первой части книги дан анализ процесса формирования умеренного, радикального и революционного направлений общественной мысли. Во второй — сопоставляются воззрения представителей демократической идеологии Франклина, Джефферсона, Пейна и др. В третьей части рассмотрены...
Источник: «Американские федералисты: Гамильтон, Мэдисон, Джей. Избранные статьи» (Benson, VT: Chalidze Publications, 1990)
Статьи Конфедерации и вечного союза (англ. Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union) — первый конституционный документ США. Статьи Конфедерации были приняты на Втором континентальном конгрессе 15 ноября 1777 года в Йорке (Пенсильвания) и ратифицированы...
Во время войны за независимость 1775-1783гг. в разных штатах были приняты различные по своему характеру конституции. В одних — более демократичные, в других — менее. Это зависело от особенностей политической обстановки и соотношения классовых
сил в различных штатах. Принятием конституций штатов была достигнута известная политическая стабилизация, заложена основа правопорядка, на...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1976. — 192 с.
Книга вышла к 200 летию американской революции и знаменитого "Биля о правах" - Американской конституции. Автор рассказывает о войне за независимость 1775-1783 гг.Книга написана на основании исследований американских историков.
Содержание:
От автора.
Год рождения 1776.
В пороховом дыму.
С монархами - к победе!
О связи "Духа 1776-го года"...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1976. - 192 с.
Книга вышла к 200 летию американской революции и знаменитого "Биля о правах" - Американской конституции. Автор рассказывает о войне за независимость 1775-1783 гг.
Книга написана на основании исследований американских историков.
Содержание:
От автора.
Год рождения 1776.
В пороховом дыму.
С монархами - к победе!
О связи "Духа 1776-го...
М.: ИВИ РАН, 2007. - 278 с.
Монография посвящена деятельности Континентального конгресса США от момента ратификации первой конституции страны до вступления в силу второй, действующей и поныне (1781-1788 гг.). Рассмотрена борьба группировок внутри Конгресса, попытки реформирования «Статей Конфедерации», экономические программы и проекты освоения западных земель. Автор раскрывает...
М.: Прогресс, 1980. — 293, [2] с. Предлагаемая вниманию советского читателя книга известного американского историка-марксиста Филипа Фонера занимает особое место в ряду многочисленных исследований американских авторов, посвященных войне североамериканских колоний Англии за независимость 1775—1783 годов. Это первая в США монография, автор которой с марксистских позиций исследует...
М.: Издательство АН СССР, 1960. - 155 с.
Книга представляет собой научно-популярный очерк одного из важнейших событий в мировой и национальной американской истории. В ней освещаются следующие вопросы: социально-экономические и политические предпосылки американской буржуазной революции; освободительное и демократическое движение в североамериканских колониях (1763—1775 гг.);...
М.: Издательство АН СССР, 1960. — 155 с. Книга представляет собой научно-популярный очерк одного из важнейших событий в мировой и национальной американской истории. В ней освещаются следующие вопросы: социально-экономические и политические предпосылки американской буржуазной революции; освободительное и демократическое движение в североамериканских колониях (1763—1775 гг.);...
Л.: Наука, 1978. - 414 с. Книга представляет собой исторический очерк революционно-освободительной борьбы североамериканских колоний Англии в 60-х - 70-х гг. XVIII века, а также войны за независимость 1776-1783 гг., результатом которых явилось образование буржуазной республики - США. Содержание: Глава первая - Предпосылки революции. Глава вторая - Начало сопротивления. Глава...
М.: Государственное учебно-педагогическое издательство Наркомпроса РСФСР, 1941. - 139 с.
Книга рассказывает о жизни и деятельности Джорджа Вашингтона, первого президента американской республики и даёт картину борьбы американского народа за свою независимость от Англии от начала национально-освободительного движения в колониях до принятия конституции.
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