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Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follow the development of goverment in the colonial period from the arrival of the first settlers to the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
Author
Series
Colver lectures volume 1965
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1968
Physical Desc
xi, 161, xii p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Yale studies in political science volume 16
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
1966
Physical Desc
xxii, 279 p. illus. 23 cm.
Language
English
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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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 350 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"More than fifty years before the American Revolution, Boston was in revolt against the tyrannies of the Crown, Puritan Authority, and Superstition. This is the story of a fateful year that prefigured the events of 1776. In The Fever of 1721, Stephen Coss brings to life an amazing cast of characters in a year that changed the course of medical history, American journalism, and Colonial revolution, including Cotton Mather, the great Puritan preacher,...
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English
Description
The first major biography of Benjamin Franklin in more than sixty years, The First American is history on a grand scale -- a work of meticulous scholarship and a thoroughly engaging portrait of the foremost American of his day. Diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, wit, and bon vivant, Benjamin Franklin was in every respect America's first Renaissance man. The eighteenth-century genius comes to life in this masterwork by acclaimed...
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English
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Publisher description: King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war." It all began when Philip (called Metacom by his own people), the leader of the Wampanoag Indians, led attacks against English towns in...
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Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
If the founding fathers and mothers of the United States had built a time capsule to tell the story of the nation's beginnings, what artifacts would be packed inside? Tea leaves, a lantern, yellowed documents, and more tell a part of the story of the colonists' fight for independence. In this Time Capsule History book, readers can examine primary sources of the Revolutionary Era to explore this exciting moment in history!
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English
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"A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it. George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the "American Revolution": former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams...
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Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xvii, 238 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Why did the American Revolution take place? It was about more than the dates and details we all know: war elephants charging a fort in India and high-stakes gambles of bankers in Scotland, among other events, also played a part in the "real revolution" in the minds of the entire population of what would become the United States.
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