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  • Empire and Nation

    The American Revolution in the Atlantic World

    by Eliga H. Gould, Peter S. Onuf ...
    Series series Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World
    A look at America's revolution in the context of the larger British empire: "Many interesting essays . . . a valuable scholarly contribution." — Journal of Colonialism and Colonial HistoryHow did events and ideas from elsewhere in the British empire influence development in the thirteen American colonies? And what was the effect of the American Revolution on the wider Atlantic world? In Empire and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Among the Powers of the Earth

    The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire

    by Eliga H. Gould ...
    For most Americans, the Revolution’s main achievement is summed up by the phrase “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Yet far from a straightforward attempt to be free of Old World laws and customs, the American founding was also a bid for inclusion in the community of nations as it existed in 1776. America aspired to diplomatic recognition under international law and the authority to ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Persistence of Empire

    British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution

    by Eliga H. Gould ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britain's most humiliating defeat as an imperial power. In this lively, concise book, Eliga Gould examines an important yet surprisingly understudied aspect of the conflict: the British public's predominantly loyal response to its government's actions in North America.Gould attributes British support for George III ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Against All Odds

    Spain and the Global Struggle for US Independence

    by Gabriel Paquette, Douglas Bradburn, Manuel Lucena Giraldo, Dr. Kathleen DuVal, PhD, Jane Landers, Agustín Guimerá Ravina, José María Blanco Núñez, Larrie D. Ferreiro, José Manuel Guerrero Acosta, Sylvia L. Hilton, Eliga Gould, Juan Luis Simal, Richard L. Kagan ...
    Recognizing Spain as a crucial contributor to the United States’ successful bid for independenceHistorians increasingly recognize the global dimensions of the American Revolutionary War, and the essays in this indispensable collection highlight the pivotal role played by Spain in the US bid for independence. Together, they cover the unheralded role of Native Americans and Spanish Black militias in ... Read more

    $32.49 CAD

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  • The American Revolution at 250

    Twenty-Four Historians Reflect on the Founding

    by Brendan McConville, Annette Gordon-Reed, Eliga Gould, Christa Dierksheide, Professor Nicholas Guyatt, PhD, Professor Robert G. Parkinson, Professor Marlene L. Daut, Ph.D, Allison Bigelow, Peter S. Onuf, T. H. Breen, Professor Rosemarie Zagarri, PhD, John A. Ragosta, Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Professor Woody Holton, Professor Lauren Duval, Ricardo Herrera, Joanne B. Freeman, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Andrew M. Davenport, Patrick Griffin, Katherine Carté, Dr. Michael A. McDonnell, PhD, Teresa R Pollak ...
    Series series The Revolutionary Age
    The preeminent historians of the founding era speak their mind on the anniversary of the United States’ birthIn these powerful and personal essays, some of the most celebrated historians of the American Revolutionary era reflect on the meaning of 1776 to the nation in 2026, offering fresh insights and food for thought on every page. They tackle the most pressing topics that Americans debated in ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 1, 1500–1820

    Edited by Eliga Gould, Paul Mapp, Carla Gardina Pestana ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of America and the World
    The first volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States emerged out of a series of colonial interactions, some involving indigenous empires and communities that were already present when the first Europeans reached the Americas, others the adventurers and settlers dispatched by Europe's imperial powers to secure their American claims, and still others men ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

  • Ireland and America

    Empire, Revolution, and Sovereignty

    by Rache Banke, Trevor Burnard, Nicholas Canny, Christa Dierksheide, Matthew P. Dziennik, Professor S. Max Edelson, PhD, Annette Gordon-Reed, Robert G. Ingram, Peter S. Onuf, Jessica Roney, Gordon S. Wood, Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy, Eliga Gould, T. H. Breen ...
    Series series The Revolutionary Age
    Looking at America through the Irish prism and employing a comparative approach, leading and emerging scholars of early American and Atlantic history interrogate anew the relationship between imperial reform and revolution in Ireland and America, offering fascinating insights into the imperial whole of which both places were a part. Revolution would eventually stem from the ways the Irish and ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

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  • The Roots of Ireland's Troubles

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    The author of Elizabeth I's Secret Lover " places Ireland into a much wider context and takes it beyond the simplistic Catholic v Protestant dichotomy" ( The British Empire Blog ).Over the course of three decades in the late twentieth century, Northern Ireland was embroiled in the Troubles, a conflict characterized by the violent and bitter struggle between nationalists and unioni... ... Read more

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  • Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks

    Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide

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  • The Hacker Crackdown

    Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier

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    The Secrets of History's Most Famous Embroidery Hidden in Plain Sight

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