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  • Contested Commonwealths

    Essays in American History

    by John Lax, Ralph J. Crandall, William A. Pencak ...
    Series series Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
    United States historian William Pencak here collects thirteen of his essays, written beginning in 1976. Some deal with colonial and revolutionary crowds and communities in Massachusetts—the impressment riot of 1747, the popular uprisings of the 1760s and 1770s, and Shays' Rebellion. Others discuss the popular ideology of the American Revolution as expressed in songs and almanacs, while several ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

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  • The Life of George Washington

    All Five Volumes in a Single File

    by John Marshall ...
    The classic biography by John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. According to Wikipedia: "George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731 – December 14, 1799) served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and as the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783. Because of his significant role in the revolution ... Read more

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  • 1775

    A Good Year for Revolution

    by Kevin Phillips ...
    The contrarian historian and analyst upends the conventional reading of the American RevolutionIn 1775, iconoclastic historian and bestselling author Kevin Phillips punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. He suggests that the great events and confrontations of 1775—Congress’s belligerent economic ultimatums to Britain, New England’s rage militaire, the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Founding Fathers Reconsidered

    by R.B. Bernstein ...
    Here is a concise scholarly yet accessible overview of the brilliant flawed and quarrelsome group of lawyers politicians merchants military men and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ever seen. In The Founding Fathers Reconsidered R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington Franklin Jefferson Adams ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Hurricane of Independence

    The Untold Story of the Deadly Storm at the Deciding Moment of the American Revolution

    by Tony Williams ...
    The sleeper history hit of 2008, released in paperback to coincide with the heart of hurricane seasonOn September 2, 1775, the eighth deadliest Atlantic hurricane of all time landed on American shores. Over the next days, it would race up the East Coast, striking all of the important colonial capitols and killing more than four thousand people. In an era when hurricanes were viewed as omens from ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Independence Lost

    Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

    by Kathleen DuVal ...
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian tells the “astonishing” (The New York Times Book Review) story of the Revolutionary War through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society—including enslaved people, American Indians, women, and British loyalists—in a revised edition with a new preface and afterword.**Kathleen DuVal is featured in the new Ken Burns documentary The American Revolution.**Winner ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Royal Proclamation of Rebellion

    by King George III ...
    One of the most famous revolutions in history, the American Revolution (1775-1783) was the political upheaval in which 13 distinct colonies in North America banded together to cast off British rule, forming the United States of America. After the shot heard round the world on April 19, 1775, at the Battle of Lexington, the colonies sent representatives to the Second Continental Congress, the new ... Read more

    $1.40 CAD

  • American Slavery

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Heather Andrea Williams ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Europeans, Africans, and American Indians practiced slavery long before the first purchase of a captive African by a white land-owner in the American colonies; that, however, is the image of slavery most prevalent in the minds of Americans today. This Very Short Introduction begins with the Portuguese capture of Africans in the 1400s and traces the development of American slavery until its ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Damned Nation

    Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction

    by Kathryn Gin Lum ...
    Among the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day survival, political harmony, exploration of the continent, foreign policy, and--fixed deeply in the collective consciousness--hell and eternal damnation. The fear of fire and brimstone and the worm that never dies exerted a profound and lasting influence on Americans' ideas about themselves, their neighbors ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Volume 1

    by Alexander Hamilton ...
    Unfortunately, one of the best known aspects of Alexander Hamiltons (1755-1804) life is the manner in which he died, being shot and killed in a famous duel with Aaron Burr in 1804. But Hamilton became one of the most instrumental Founding Fathers of the United States in that time, not only in helping draft and gain support for the U.S. Constitution but in also leading the Federalist party and ... Read more

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  • Creating the Democratic-Republican Party: The Lives and Legacies of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Comprehensively covers the lives and careers of Jefferson and Madison from before the Revolution to their presidencies. *Includes pictures of important people, places, and events.*Looks at the influences on the political philosophies of the two architects of the Democratic-Republican Party*Discusses their arguments with the Federalists. *Includes a Bibliography and Table of Contents. An opinion ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Life of Benjamin Franklin

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Includes:*Charles River Editors original biography*The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with an introduction from Harvard Classics Volume IBefore the United States of America even existed, the first American celebrity was Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). In his career, Franklin was an author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD