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  • To Swear like a Sailor

    Maritime Culture in America, 1750–1850

    by Paul A. Gilje ...
    Anyone could swear like a sailor! Within the larger culture, sailors had pride of place in swearing. But how they swore and the reasons for their bad language were not strictly wedded to maritime things. Instead, sailor swearing, indeed all swearing in this period, was connected to larger developments. This book traces the interaction between the maritime and mainstream world in the United States ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • The Road to Mobocracy

    Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834

    by Paul A. Gilje ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    The Road to Mobocracy is the first major study of public disorder in New York City from the Revolutionary period through the Jacksonian era. During that time, the mob lost its traditional, institutional role as corporate safety valve and social corrective, tolerated by public officials. It became autonomous, a violent menace to individual and public good expressing the discordant urges and fears ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Free Trade and Sailors' Rights in the War of 1812

    by Paul A. Gilje ...
    On 2 July 1812, Captain David Porter raised a banner on the USS Essex proclaiming 'a free trade and sailors rights', thus creating a political slogan that explained the War of 1812. Free trade demanded the protection of American commerce, while sailors' rights insisted that the British end the impressment of seamen from American ships. Repeated for decades in Congress and in taverns, the slogan ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Liberty on the Waterfront

    American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution

    by Paul A. Gilje ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Through careful research and colorful accounts, historian Paul A. Gilje discovers what liberty meant to an important group of common men in American society, those who lived and worked on the waterfront and aboard ships. In the process he reveals that the idealized vision of liberty associated with the Founding Fathers had a much more immediate and complex meaning than previously thought.In ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Liberty on the Waterfront

    American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution

    by Paul A. Gilje ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    Through careful research and colorful accounts, historian Paul A. Gilje discovers what liberty meant to an important group of common men in American society, those who lived and worked on the waterfront and aboard ships. In the process he reveals that the idealized vision of liberty associated with the Founding Fathers had a much more immediate and complex meaning than previously thought.In ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

  • European Friends of the American Revolution

    by Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Julia Osman, Paul Gilje, Victor Enthoven, Olivier Chaline, Jean-Marie Kowalski, Dr. Kathleen DuVal, PhD, Gonzalo Quintero Saravia, Timothy Walker0, Robert Rhodes Crout1, Munro Price2 ...
    Series series The Revolutionary Age
    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 the earth." This collection of essays not only offers new glimpses ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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    A Good Year for Revolution

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    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

  • A Leap in the Dark

    The Struggle to Create the American Republic

    by John Ferling ...
    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 offers a magisterial new history that surges from the first ... Read more

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    by Nathaniel Philbrick ...
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  • The Glorious Cause

    The American Revolution, 1763-1789

    by Robert Middlekauff ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    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 first president, Robert Middlekauff offers a panoramic ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Slave Ship

    A Human History

    by Marcus Rediker ...
    In a chilling exploration of a nearly forgotten chapter of history, Marcus Rediker delves into the dark depths of slave ships in the 18th century.In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. With meticulous detail, Rediker uncovers the harsh ... Read more

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    Revolution Exile Settlement

    by Christopher Moore ...
    In 1783 and 1784, some fifty thousand Americans felt that they could not support the revolution against Britain. They were called Loyalists – and there would be no place for them in the new United States.As they streamed into the Canadian colonies to the north, they changed forever the face of settlement there. Their arrival would eventually lead to the formation of the provinces of New Brunswick ... Read more

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