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  • Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria

    How Pirates, Smugglers, and Scoundrels Almost Saved the Confederacy

    par Beau Cleland ...
    Collections Livre 29 - UnCivil Wars
    Between King Cotton and Queen Victoria recenters our understanding of the Civil War by framing it as a hemispheric affair, deeply influenced by the actions of a network of private parties and minor officials in the Confederacy and British territory in and around North America. John Wilkes Booth likely would not have been in a position to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, for example, without the ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Blood and Daring

    How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation

    par John Boyko ...
    Blood and Daring will change our views not just of Canada's relationship with the United States, but of the Civil War, Confederation and Canada itself.In Blood and Daring, lauded historian John Boyko makes a compelling argument that Confederation occurred when and as it did largely because of the pressures of the Civil War. Many readers will be shocked by Canada's deep connection to the war- ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge

    Canada and the Civil War

    par Brian Martin ...
    Filled with engaging stories and astonishing facts, From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge examines the role of Canadians in the American Civil WarDespite all we know about the Civil War, its causes, battles, characters, issues, impacts, and legacy, few books have explored Canada’s role in the bloody conflict that claimed more than 600,000 lives.A surprising 20,000 Canadians went south to take ... En savoir plus

    $13.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • American Revolutions

    A Continental History, 1750-1804

    par Alan Taylor ...
    "Excellent…deserves high praise. Mr. Taylor conveys this sprawling continental history with economy, clarity, and vividness." —Brendan Simms, Wall Street JournalThe American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the nation its democratic framework. Alan Taylor, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, gives us a different creation story ... En savoir plus

    $22.09 CAD

  • Liberty's Exiles

    American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World

    par Maya Jasanoff ...
    **NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond. At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousand Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. Liberty's Exiles tells their story.Maya Jasanoff ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Tories

    Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War

    par Thomas B. Allen ...
    An "evocatively written examination" of the Americans who fought alongside the British during the American Revolution ( American Spectator).The American Revolution was not simply a battle between the independence-minded colonists and the oppressive British. As Thomas B. Allen reminds us, it was also a savage and often deeply personal civil war, in which conflicting visions of America pitted ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Scars of Independence

    America's Violent Birth

    par Holger Hoock ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICEA magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's founding**The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It’s a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Loyalists

    Revolution Exile Settlement

    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 ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $17.99 CAD Maintenant $14.99 CAD

  • The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

    Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

    par Alan Taylor ...
    This searing story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian reveals the pivot in the nation’s path between the founding and civil war.Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom’s swift-winged angels." In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans ... En savoir plus

    $16.69 CAD

  • 1775

    A Good Year for Revolution

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • The American Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $7.19 CAD

  • Liberty Is Sweet

    The Hidden History of the American Revolution

    par Woody Holton ...
    A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters.Using more than a thousand eyewitness records, Liberty Is Sweet is a “spirited account” (Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD