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  • Tower Hill

    A Plantation on the Edge of Rebellion

    de Alan Taylor ...
    The Nat Turner rebellion of August 1831, the iconic uprising of enslaved people in the United States, was much more extensive than we have understood. This powerful exploration of a Tidewater Virginia plantation reveals how the daily resistance of the enslaved was heightened by spiritual beliefs to seek the divine overthrow of a wicked world.Tower Hill draws on a previously untapped family archive ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • American Colonies

    The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)

    Series series The Penguin History of the United States
    A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American RevolutionsIn the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from milennia past, ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • American Revolutions

    A Continental History, 1750-1804

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Civil War of 1812

    American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies

    de Alan Taylor ...
    In the early nineteenth century, Britons and Americans renewed their struggle over the legacy of the American Revolution, leading to a second confrontation that redefined North America. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor’s vivid narrative tells the riveting story of the soldiers, immigrants, settlers, and Indians who fought to determine the fate of a continent. Would revolutionary ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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

    Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Edinburgh: The Autobiography

    de Alan Taylor ...
    Offers a vivid portrait of Edinburgh's evolution, capturing its historical significance, cultural shifts, and the diverse lives of its people. Relive the history of Edinburgh through the eyes of those who witnessed it. From one of the earliest mentions of its name in the sixth century to the Covid lockdowns of the twenty-first, this is a magnificent portrait of one of the world's great cities in ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • American Civil Wars

    A Continental History, 1850-1873

    de Alan Taylor ...
    **A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2024A masterful history of the Civil War and its reverberations across the continent by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.**In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America’s three largest countries—the United States, ... Leer más

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  • The Divided Ground

    Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution

    de Alan Taylor ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of William Cooper's Town comes a dramatic and illuminating portrait of white and Native American relations in the aftermath of the American Revolution.The Divided Ground tells the story of two friends, a Mohawk Indian and the son of a colonial clergyman, whose relationship helped redefine North America. As one served American expansion by promoting Indian ... Leer más

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  • The Minutemen and Their World

    Series series American Century
    The Bancroft Prize–winning classic of American history now in a revised and expanded edition with a new preface and afterword by the author.On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The "shot heard round the world" catapulted this sleepy New England town into the height of revolutionary fervor, and Concord went on to become the intellectual ... Leer más

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  • William Cooper's Town

    Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    de Alan Taylor ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • William Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper, a father and son who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic, are brought to life in this Pulitzer Prize-winning book.William Cooper rose from humble origins to become a wealthy land speculator and U.S. congressman in what had until lately been the wilderness of upstate New York, but his ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Colonial America:A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Alan Taylor ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In the traditional narrative of American colonial history, early European settlements, as well as native peoples and African slaves, were treated in passing as unfortunate aberrations in a fundamentally upbeat story of Englishmen becoming freer and more prosperous by colonizing an abundant continent of "free land." Over the last generation, historians have broadened our understanding of colonial ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Glasgow

    The Autobiography

    de Alan Taylor ...
    The story of a Scottish city as seen by its residents and visitors: "It's a fine treasure-house—and even Glaswegians may learn something new from it." — ScotsmanThis is the story of the fabled former Second City of the British Empire, from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the Industrial Revolution to the dawning of the second millennium. Arranged ... Leer más

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