Revolutionary Period

The British Army in North America conducted two campaigns in 1777. John Burgoyne led one army south from Canada to seize control of the Lake Champlain-Hudson River corridor resulting in the battle of Saratoga. Burgoyne's defeat led to that army's capture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of George Washington Book Prize 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780812976847Author Richard BeemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House Trade...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451626995Author Benson BobrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did "rights" come to justify such...

Histories of the Revolutionary War have long honored heroines such as Betsy Ross, Abigail Adams, and Molly Pitcher. Now, more than two centuries later, comes the first biography of one of the war's most remarkable women, a beautiful Philadelphia society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576877708Author Elizabeth WurtzelFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 129g

The story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British generals and their rigidly disciplined red-coated troops on the one side and heroic American patriots in their homespun shirts and coonskin caps on the other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807060988Author Marcus RedikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm *...

Go beyond Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton and get to know the real Alexander Hamilton in this Library of America collection of the Founding Father's own public and private writings. A brash immigrant who rose to become George Washington's right-hand man. A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594164279Author Don N HagistFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594163852Author Don N HagistFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

George C. Daughan's magnificently detailed account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord challenges the prevailing narrative of the American War of Independence. It was, Daughan argues, based as much in economic concerns as political ones. When...

In a letter to his wife Abigail, John Adams judged the author of Common Sense as having "a better hand at pulling down than building." Adams's dismissive remark has helped shape the prevailing view of Tom Paine ever since. But, as Edward G. Gray shows in...

Here, on a scale unmatched by any previous collection, is the extraordinary energy and eloquence of our first national political campaign: During the secret proceedings of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the framers created a fundamentally new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410224668Author Charles R SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061241819Author Thomas B AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

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...

In 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, the Continental Congress declared independence, and Washington crossed the Delaware. We are familiar with these famous moments in American history, but we know little about the extraordinary events occurring...

If you love Lin Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, or the books of Ron Chernow and David McCullough, then dig into these facts about Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and the rest of the founding fathers.America has fallen in...

Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty--so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the...

A People's History Of The American Revolution draws upon diaries, personal letters and other Revolutionary-era treasures, weaving a thrilling, 'you are there' narrative - 'a tapestry that uses individual experiences to illustrate the larger stories' (Los...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140150803Author Thomas JeffersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

During the years of the Early Republic, prominent Native leaders regularly traveled to American cities--Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, New York, and New Orleans--primarily on diplomatic or trade business, but also from...

This book is the first in-depth study of the way in which historians have dealt with the coming of the American Revolution and the formation of the US Constitution. The approach is thematic, examining how historians in different periods interpreted these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609490010Author Michael S. AdelbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 157Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626863934Author Founding FathersFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Canterbury ClassicsPublisher Canterbury ClassicsWeight(grams) 574gDimensions(mm)...

What can homespun cloth, stuffed birds, quince jelly, and ginseng reveal about the formation of early American national identity? In this wide-ranging and bold new interpretation of American history and its Founding Fathers, Kariann Akemi Yokota shows...

This engaging history overturns the conventional wisdom about the Second Amendment--showing that the right to bear arms was not about protecting liberty but about preserving slavery. In Madison's Militia, Carl Bogus illuminates why James Madison and...

Between 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians, they actually came from six German territories within the Holy Roman Empire. Over the course of the war,...

A prize-winning historian provides the missing piece in the story of America's founding, introducing us to the ordinary men and women who turned a faltering rebellion against colonial rule into an unexpectedly potent and enduring revolution.Over eight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852963Author Robert Tracy MckenzieFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 582gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

In this life of painter John Singleton Copley, Jane Kamensky untangles the web of principles and interests that shaped the age of America's revolution. Copley's talent earned him the patronage of Boston's leaders but he did not share their politics and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780917860096Author Patricia Brady SchmitFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Historic New Orleans Collection,U.S.Publisher Historic New Orleans Collection,U...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667209647Author Founding FathersFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Canterbury ClassicsPublisher Canterbury ClassicsWeight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809025626Author Countryman EdwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060539177Author Simon SchamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 626g

A history of America's military on horseback.For three thousand years, the horse soldier has played a key role in both war fighting and in peace keeping all over the world, not only as a highly mobile strike force in battle but also as an instrument of...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467144865Author Michael G LaramieFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143037200Author Gary B. NashFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 140mm *...