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  • Grandpa’S Us Colonial History to 1800

    by Terrence Hagen ...
    Did the American people suddenly become independent on July 4, 1776, or is there something more to our shared history?History books tend to simplify the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence, but not Grandpa! Terrence Hagen wants his grandchildrenand everyone elseto know exactly what happened from the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to the time the Founding Fathers broke free from ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Paul Revere's Ride

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history--yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. Now one of the foremost American historians offers the first serious look at the events of the night of April 18, 1775--what led up to it, what really happened, and what followed--uncovering a truth far more remarkable than the ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

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  • The Story of America

    Essays on Origins

    by Jill Lepore ...
    From Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jill Lepore, a history of American origin storiesIn The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories—from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address—to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Over the centuries, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Revolutionaries

    A New History of the Invention of America

    by Jack Rakove ...
    "[A] wide-ranging and nuanced group portrait of the Founding Fathers" by a Pulitzer Prize winner ( The New Yorker).In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted to family and the private pursuit of wealth and happiness. None set out to become "revolutionary." But when events in Boston escalated, they found ... Read more

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  • George Washington: Gentleman Warrior

    by Stephen Brumwell ...
    WINNER OF THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE 2013.'I am a warrior'. These were the uncompromising words that George Washington chose to describe himself in May 1779, at the height of the Revolutionary War against Britain. It's an image very different to the one that he's been assigned by posterity - the patriotic plantation owner who would become the dignified political leader of his country.Stephen ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The American Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert J. Allison ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new form of government based on the idea that people have the right to govern themselves. In this lively account, Robert Allison provides a ... Read more

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  • Avenging the People

    Andrew Jackson, the Rule of Law, and the American Nation

    by J.M. Opal ...
    Most Americans know Andrew Jackson as a frontier rebel against political and diplomatic norms, a "populist" champion of ordinary people against the elitist legacy of the Founding Fathers. Many date the onset of American democracy to his 1829 inauguration. Despite his reverence for the "sovereign people," however, Jackson spent much of his career limiting that sovereignty, imposing new and often ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Insurgent Cuba

    Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898

    by Ada Ferrer ...
    In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe’s oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This book tells the story of the thirty-year unfolding and undoing of that movement.Ada Ferrer examines the participation of ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Sex and the Scientist

    The Indecent Life of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753-1814)

    by Jane Merrill ...
    One of the preeminent natural philosophers of the Enlightenment, Benjamin Thompson started out as a farm boy with a practical turn of mind. His inventions include the Rumford fireplace, insulated clothing, the thermos, convection ovens, double boilers, double-paned glass and an improved sloop. He was knighted by King George III and became a Count of the Holy Roman Emperor.Thompson's popularity ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • George Whitefield

    America's Spiritual Founding Father

    by Thomas S. Kidd ...
    In the years prior to the American Revolution, George Whitefield was the most famous man in the colonies. Thomas Kidd’s fascinating new biography explores the extraordinary career of the most influential figure in the first generation of Anglo-American evangelical Christianity, examining his sometimes troubling stands on the pressing issues of the day, both secular and spiritual, and his ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • American Sanctuary

    Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution

    by A. Roger Ekirch ...
    From “one of the most wide-ranging and imaginative historians in America today; there is no one else quite like him in the profession” (Gordon S. Wood)—a dazzling and original work of history.A. Roger Ekirch’s American Sanctuary begins in 1797 with the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy—on the British frigate HMS Hermione, four thousand miles from England’s shores, off the western ... Read more

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  • River of Triumph

    by Ken Cascone ...
    River of Triumph This is the tale of America’s founding as a nation against incredible odds. Clashes among rebels, Tories, and redcoats resound in vivid battles and on daring covert missions in the Hudson Valley and along Long Island Sound. Geographically paralleling the historical narrative, a contemporary murder mystery unfolds through a revelation of clues tied to the past. Beginning in 1768, ... Read more

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