Author: Bruce E. R. Thompson
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780737710410
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents a collection of thirty-two essays on the social and cultural changes that occurred in the colonies between 1750 and 1783, and examines colonial life, the Iroquois Confederacy, the Seven Year's War, economic disputes with England and other events leading up to the Revolutionary War, and independence from Britain.
The Revolutionary Period, 1750-1783, Volume 3
Author: Bruce E. R. Thompson
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780737710410
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents a collection of thirty-two essays on the social and cultural changes that occurred in the colonies between 1750 and 1783, and examines colonial life, the Iroquois Confederacy, the Seven Year's War, economic disputes with England and other events leading up to the Revolutionary War, and independence from Britain.
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780737710410
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents a collection of thirty-two essays on the social and cultural changes that occurred in the colonies between 1750 and 1783, and examines colonial life, the Iroquois Confederacy, the Seven Year's War, economic disputes with England and other events leading up to the Revolutionary War, and independence from Britain.
The Age of Reform and Industrialization, 1896-1920, Volume 6
Author: Roman Espejo
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780737711417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Looks at important writings and moments in American history during the the Spanish American War, annexation of the Philippines and other territories, and the Industrial Revolution.
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780737711417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Looks at important writings and moments in American history during the the Spanish American War, annexation of the Philippines and other territories, and the Industrial Revolution.
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Author: Alan Taylor
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393253872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
“Excellent . . . deserves high praise. Mr. Taylor conveys this sprawling continental history with economy, clarity, and vividness.”—Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal The 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 in this magisterial history. The American Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain’s colonies, fueled by local conditions and resistant to control. Emerging from the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, the revolution pivoted on western expansion as well as seaboard resistance to British taxes. When war erupted, Patriot crowds harassed Loyalists and nonpartisans into compliance with their cause. The war exploded in set battles like Saratoga and Yorktown and spread through continuing frontier violence. The discord smoldering within the fragile new nation called forth a movement to concentrate power through a Federal Constitution. Assuming the mantle of “We the People,” the advocates of national power ratified the new frame of government. But it was Jefferson’s expansive “empire of liberty” that carried the revolution forward, propelling white settlement and slavery west, preparing the ground for a new conflagration.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393253872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
“Excellent . . . deserves high praise. Mr. Taylor conveys this sprawling continental history with economy, clarity, and vividness.”—Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal The 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 in this magisterial history. The American Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain’s colonies, fueled by local conditions and resistant to control. Emerging from the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, the revolution pivoted on western expansion as well as seaboard resistance to British taxes. When war erupted, Patriot crowds harassed Loyalists and nonpartisans into compliance with their cause. The war exploded in set battles like Saratoga and Yorktown and spread through continuing frontier violence. The discord smoldering within the fragile new nation called forth a movement to concentrate power through a Federal Constitution. Assuming the mantle of “We the People,” the advocates of national power ratified the new frame of government. But it was Jefferson’s expansive “empire of liberty” that carried the revolution forward, propelling white settlement and slavery west, preparing the ground for a new conflagration.
Revolutionary America, 1750-1815
Author: Cynthia A. Kierner
Publisher: Pearson
ISBN: 9780130898678
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A core text or supplementary reader for advanced undergraduate courses on the era of the American Revolution. Unique in both coverage and focus, this collection of primary documents and original interpretive essays provides an unusually well-balanced introduction to the era of the American Revolution. Chronologically, the text explores the period from 1750 to 1815--examining sources of both stability and discontent within the British Empire (and thereby discouraging students from assuming the inevitability of the Revolution), and ending with the War of 1812 (which many Americans saw as securing independence and the ideals of the Revolution). Topically, the text covers traditional political and military subjects as well as the newer social and cultural history of the era--providing students with a broad understanding of the Revolution as both a war for independence and an occasion for political, social, and cultural conflict and transformation. The wide variety of documents range from classic texts--such as Common Sense and the Federalist--to excerpts from diaries and travelers' accounts to newspapers advertisements and selections from contemporary histories and novels.
Publisher: Pearson
ISBN: 9780130898678
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A core text or supplementary reader for advanced undergraduate courses on the era of the American Revolution. Unique in both coverage and focus, this collection of primary documents and original interpretive essays provides an unusually well-balanced introduction to the era of the American Revolution. Chronologically, the text explores the period from 1750 to 1815--examining sources of both stability and discontent within the British Empire (and thereby discouraging students from assuming the inevitability of the Revolution), and ending with the War of 1812 (which many Americans saw as securing independence and the ideals of the Revolution). Topically, the text covers traditional political and military subjects as well as the newer social and cultural history of the era--providing students with a broad understanding of the Revolution as both a war for independence and an occasion for political, social, and cultural conflict and transformation. The wide variety of documents range from classic texts--such as Common Sense and the Federalist--to excerpts from diaries and travelers' accounts to newspapers advertisements and selections from contemporary histories and novels.
Post-Cold War America, 1992-Present, Volume 9
Author: James Haley
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780737711479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Presents articles and primary documents on twenty-seven key historical and cultural events in America spanning 1992-2001, from the Rodney King verdict to the September 11 terrorist attacks, and includes an introduction, chronology, and selected bibliography.
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780737711479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Presents articles and primary documents on twenty-seven key historical and cultural events in America spanning 1992-2001, from the Rodney King verdict to the September 11 terrorist attacks, and includes an introduction, chronology, and selected bibliography.
American Eras: Early American civilizations and exploration to 1600
Author: Gretchen D. Starr-LeBeau
Publisher: American Eras
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Covers the individuals and events related to such topics as world events, the arts, communication, education, government and politics, and science and medicine from the colonial era onward.
Publisher: American Eras
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Covers the individuals and events related to such topics as world events, the arts, communication, education, government and politics, and science and medicine from the colonial era onward.
Forthcoming Books
Author: Rose Arny
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1816
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1816
Book Description
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Author: Gordon S. Wood
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
"Senior co-administrator of the Norcoast Salmon Research Facility, Dr. Mackenzie Connor - Mac to her friends and colleagues - was a biologist who had wanted nothing more out of life than to study the spawning habits of salmon. But that was before she met Brymn, the first member of the Dhryn race ever to set foot on Earth. And it was before Base was attacked, and Mac's friend and fellow scientist Dr. Emily Mamani was kidnapped by the mysterious race known as the Ro." "From that moment on everything changed for Mac, for Emily, for Brymn, for the human race, and for all the many member races of the Interspecies Union." "Now, with the alien Dhryn following an instinct-driven migratory path through the inhabited spaceways - bringing about the annihilation of sentient races who have the misfortune to lie along the star trail they are following - time is running out not only for the human race but for all life forms." "And only Mac and her disparate band of researchers - drawn from many of the races that are members of the Interspecies Union - stand any chance of solving the deadly puzzle of the Dhryn and the equally enigmatic Ro."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
"Senior co-administrator of the Norcoast Salmon Research Facility, Dr. Mackenzie Connor - Mac to her friends and colleagues - was a biologist who had wanted nothing more out of life than to study the spawning habits of salmon. But that was before she met Brymn, the first member of the Dhryn race ever to set foot on Earth. And it was before Base was attacked, and Mac's friend and fellow scientist Dr. Emily Mamani was kidnapped by the mysterious race known as the Ro." "From that moment on everything changed for Mac, for Emily, for Brymn, for the human race, and for all the many member races of the Interspecies Union." "Now, with the alien Dhryn following an instinct-driven migratory path through the inhabited spaceways - bringing about the annihilation of sentient races who have the misfortune to lie along the star trail they are following - time is running out not only for the human race but for all life forms." "And only Mac and her disparate band of researchers - drawn from many of the races that are members of the Interspecies Union - stand any chance of solving the deadly puzzle of the Dhryn and the equally enigmatic Ro."--BOOK JACKET.
The Making and Unmaking of Empires
Author: Peter James Marshall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199278954
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
In The Making and Unmaking of Empires P. J. Marshall, distinguished author of numerous books on the British Empire and former Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, provides a unified interpretation of British imperial history in the later eighteenth century. He brings together into a commonfocus Britain's loss of empire in North America and the winning of territorial dominion in parts of India and argues that these developments were part of a single phase of Britain's imperial history, rather than marking the closing of a 'first' Atlantic empire and the rise of a 'second' eastern one.In both India and North America Britain pursued similar objectives in this period. Fearful of the apparent enmity of France, Britain sought to secure the interests overseas which were thought to contribute so much to her wealth and power. This involved imposing a greater degree of control overcolonies in America and over the East India Company and its new possessions in India. Aspirations to greater control also reflected an increasing confidence in Britain's capacity to regulate the affairs of subject peoples, especially through parliament.If British objectives throughout the world were generally similar, whether they could be achieved depended on the support or at least acquiescence of those they tried to rule. Much of this book is concerned with bringing together the findings of the rich historical writing on both post-Mughal Indiaand late colonial America to assess the strengths and weaknesses of empire in different parts of the world. In North America potential allies who were closely linked to Britain in beliefs, culture and economic interest were ultimately alienated by Britain's political pretensions. Empire wasextremely fragile in two out of the three main Indian settlements. In Bengal, however, the British achieved a modus vivendi with important groups which enabled them to build a secure base for the future subjugation of the subcontinent.With the authority of one who has made the study of empire his life's work, Marshall provides a valuable resource for scholar and student alike.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199278954
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
In The Making and Unmaking of Empires P. J. Marshall, distinguished author of numerous books on the British Empire and former Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, provides a unified interpretation of British imperial history in the later eighteenth century. He brings together into a commonfocus Britain's loss of empire in North America and the winning of territorial dominion in parts of India and argues that these developments were part of a single phase of Britain's imperial history, rather than marking the closing of a 'first' Atlantic empire and the rise of a 'second' eastern one.In both India and North America Britain pursued similar objectives in this period. Fearful of the apparent enmity of France, Britain sought to secure the interests overseas which were thought to contribute so much to her wealth and power. This involved imposing a greater degree of control overcolonies in America and over the East India Company and its new possessions in India. Aspirations to greater control also reflected an increasing confidence in Britain's capacity to regulate the affairs of subject peoples, especially through parliament.If British objectives throughout the world were generally similar, whether they could be achieved depended on the support or at least acquiescence of those they tried to rule. Much of this book is concerned with bringing together the findings of the rich historical writing on both post-Mughal Indiaand late colonial America to assess the strengths and weaknesses of empire in different parts of the world. In North America potential allies who were closely linked to Britain in beliefs, culture and economic interest were ultimately alienated by Britain's political pretensions. Empire wasextremely fragile in two out of the three main Indian settlements. In Bengal, however, the British achieved a modus vivendi with important groups which enabled them to build a secure base for the future subjugation of the subcontinent.With the authority of one who has made the study of empire his life's work, Marshall provides a valuable resource for scholar and student alike.
The Cold War Period, 1945-1992, Volume 8
Author: Leora Maltz
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780737711455
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Presents nearly thirty essays and primary documents on thepolitical, cultural, and social struggles and changes that shaped America in the years of the Cold War, from 1945 to 1992; and includes a detailed chronology and a.
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780737711455
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Presents nearly thirty essays and primary documents on thepolitical, cultural, and social struggles and changes that shaped America in the years of the Cold War, from 1945 to 1992; and includes a detailed chronology and a.