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1) 1776
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. But it is the American commander-in-chief...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xi, 467 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A sweeping, provocative new look at the pivotal years leading up to the American Revolution The Revolutionary War did not begin with the Declaration of Independence, but several years earlier in 1773. In this gripping history, Derek W. Beck reveals the full story of the war before American independence-from both sides. Spanning the years 1773-1775 and drawing on new material from meticulous research and previously unpublished documents, letters, and...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Da Capo Press ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 288 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On Thursday, December 16, 1773, an estimated seven dozen men, many dressed as Indians, dumped roughly £10,000 worth of tea in Boston Harbor. Whatever their motives at the time, they unleashed a social, political, and economic firestorm that would culminate in the Declaration of Independence two-and-a-half years later.
The Boston Tea Party provoked a reign of terror in Boston and other American cities as tea parties erupted up and down the colonies....
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 9
Publisher
Modern Library
Language
English
Description
The American Revolution signaled a great change in the course of world history and progress. From this colonial revolt sprouted ideals of liberty and democracy, and all the aspirations and ambitions of a new people.
In this work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood discusses the character and consequences of the revolution, grounding the events and ideas that shaped the American consciousness.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xx, 276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Americans know about the Boston Tea Party and "the shot heard around the world," but sixteen months divided these two iconic events, a period that has nearly been lost to history. The Spirit of 74 fills in this gap in our nation's founding narrative, showing how in these mislaid months, step by step, real people made a revolution. After the Tea Party, Parliament not only shut down a port but also revoked the sacred Massachusetts charter. Completely...
9) The great separation: the story of the Boston Tea Party and the beginning of the American Revolution
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1965]
Physical Desc
194 p. illus., facsim., ports. 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang, A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 487 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author of Bloody Dawn presents a new interpretation of the American colonial fight for independence that chronicles and clarifies the 150-year effort of colonists to escape imperial rule through organized, increasingly intense uprisings.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
x, 358 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On the night of March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd gathered in front of Boston's Custom House, killing five people. Denounced as an act of unprovoked violence and villainy, the event that came to be known as the Boston Massacre is one of the most familiar incidents in American history, yet one of the least understood. Eric Hinderaker revisits this dramatic episode, examining in forensic detail the facts of that fateful night, the competing...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xviii, 284 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Perhaps nothing did more to foment anti-British sentiment than the armed occupation of Boston. This is Richard Archer's narrative of those critical months between October 1, 1768 and the winter of 1770 when Boston was an occupied town. Archer moves deftly between the governor's mansion and cobblestoned back-alleys as he traces the origins of the colonists' conflict with Britain. He reveals the maneuvering of colonial leaders as they responded to London's...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 364 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A masterful history of the first set-piece battle of the Revolutionary War, James L. Nelson's WithFire and Sword offers critical new insights into one of the most important actions of our country's founding.
On June 17, 1775, the entire dynamic of the newborn American Revolution was changed. If the Battle of Lexington and Concord was, in the immortal words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the "shot heard round the world," Bunker Hill was the volley that...
Author
Language
English
Description
What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? George Washington in the 1770s stood at the apex of Virginia society. Benjamin Franklin was more successful still, having risen from humble origins to world fame. John Adams revered the law. Yet all three men became rebels against the British Empire that fostered their success. Others in the same circle of family and friends chose differently-- and soon heard themselves denounced...
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