Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company
A Story of George Washington's Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
From historian Charles Royster--winner of the Francis Parkman, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes--comes the history of one of eighteenth-century America's most fantastic land speculation deals: William Byrd's scheme to develop 900 square miles of swamp on the Virginia-North Carolina border and create fabulous...
Nathanael Greene
A Biography of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
When the Revolutionary War began, Nathanael Greene was a private in the militia, the lowest rank possible, yet he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer--celebrated as one of three most important generals. Upon taking command of America's Southern...
Commons Democracy
Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Commons Democracy highlights a poorly understood dimension of democracy in the early United States. It tells a story that, like the familiar one, begins in the Revolutionary era. But instead of the tale of the Founders’ high-minded ideals and their careful crafting of the safe framework for democracy—a...
Men of Letters in the Early Republic
Cultivating Forums of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, after decades of intense upheaval and debate, the role of the citizen was seen as largely political. But as Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan reveals, some Americans saw a need for a realm of public men outside politics. They believed that neither the nation nor...
Legitimacy and Power Politics
The American and French Revolutions in International Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
This book examines the causes and consequences of a major transformation in both domestic and international politics: the shift from dynastically legitimated monarchical sovereignty to popularly legitimated national sovereignty. It analyzes the impact of Enlightenment discourse on politics in eighteenth-century...
The Common Cause
Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that...
by Thomas Paine
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The classic essay that helped ignite the American Revolution. According to Wikipedia: "Thomas Paine (Thetford, England, 29 January 1737 - 8 June 1809, New York City, U.S.) was an English pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, classical liberal, inventor and intellectual. He lived and worked in Britain...
Ratification
The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Winner of the George Washington Book Prize
When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new Constitution they had written was no more than a proposal. Elected conventions in at least nine of the thirteen states...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Co-author of the groundbreaking Empire and Multitude, Michael Hardt examines the Declaration of Independence and other texts by Jefferson, arguing that his powerful concept of democracy provides a biting critique of the current American administration. Introducing this collection of Jefferson’s...
The Whites of Their Eyes
Bunker Hill, the First American Army, and the Emergence of George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Drawingupon new research and scholarship, historian Paul Lockhart, author of thecritically acclaimed Revolutionary War biography The Drillmaster of ValleyForge, offers a penetrating reassessment of the first major engagement ofthe American Revolution. In the tradition of David McCullough’s 1776,Lockhart...
by George Rogers Clark
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
George Rogers Clark (November 19, 1752 February 13, 1818) was a soldier from Virginia and the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the Kentucky (then part of Virginia) militia throughout much of the war....
Historians on Hamilton
How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical has spawned sold-out performances, a triple platinum cast album, and a score so catchy that it is being used to teach U.S. history in classrooms across the country. But just how historically accurate is Hamilton? And how...
Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825
Journal of a Voyage to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Auguste Levasseur’s Lafayette in America is a journal of General Lafayette’s 1824-1825 Farewell Tour of all 24 United States. In this book, Lafayette’s private secretary describes how the now 67-year-old hero of the American Revolution and apostle of liberty in Europe was welcomed in an adoring...
Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson
The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
Where The Ideas for which We Stand came from.
In this incisively drawn book, Darren Staloff forcefully reminds us that America owes its guiding political traditions to three Founding Fathers whose lives embodied the collision of Europe's grand Enlightenment project with the birth of the nation.
Alexander...