The Sinews of Independence
Author | : Charles H. Lesser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226473321 |
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Author | : Charles H. Lesser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226473321 |
Author | : Enaith Habibullah |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lora Polack Oberle |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780736810951 |
Provides background information on the people and events connected with the writing of the Declaration of Independence and introduces the contents of the document itself.
Author | : David Hackett Fischer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2006-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199756678 |
Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die. On Christmas night, as a howling nor'easter struck the Delaware Valley, he led his men across the river and attacked the exhausted Hessian garrison at Trenton, killing or capturing nearly a thousand men. A second battle of Trenton followed within days. The Americans held off a counterattack by Lord Cornwallis's best troops, then were almost trapped by the British force. Under cover of night, Washington's men stole behind the enemy and struck them again, defeating a brigade at Princeton. The British were badly shaken. In twelve weeks of winter fighting, their army suffered severe damage, their hold on New Jersey was broken, and their strategy was ruined. Fischer's richly textured narrative reveals the crucial role of contingency in these events. We see how the campaign unfolded in a sequence of difficult choices by many actors, from generals to civilians, on both sides. While British and German forces remained rigid and hierarchical, Americans evolved an open and flexible system that was fundamental to their success. The startling success of Washington and his compatriots not only saved the faltering American Revolution, but helped to give it new meaning.
Author | : John Brewer |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674809307 |
John Brewer provides a new framework for understanding Britain's emergence in the eighteenth century as a major international power. Warfare and taxes reshaped the English economy, but at the heart of these dramatic changes lay a tension between the nation's aspirations to be a major power and fear of the domestic consequences: the loss of liberty.
Author | : Wil Mara |
Publisher | : North Star Editions, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2017-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1635174449 |
Explores the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Authoritative text, colorful illustrations, illuminating sidebars, and a "Voices from the Past" feature make this book an exciting and informative read.
Author | : John C. Dann |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1999-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226136240 |
A classic oral history of the American Revolution, The Revolution Remembered uses 79 first-hand accounts from veterans of the war to provide the reader with the feel of what it must have been like to fight and live through America's bloody battle for independence. "In a book fairly bursting with feats of daring, perhaps the most spectacular accomplishment of them all is this volume's transformation of its readers into the grandchildren of Revolutionary War soldiers. . . . An amazing gathering of 79 surrogate Yankee grandparents who tell us in their own words what they saw with their own eyes."—Elaine F. Weiss, Christian Science Monitor "Fascinating. . . . [The soldiers'] details fill in significant shadows of history."—Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times "It's still good fun two centuries later, overhearing these experiences of the tumult of everyday life and seeing a front-lines view of one of the most unusual armies ever to fight, let alone win."—Richard Martin, Wall Street Journal "One of the most important primary source discoveries from the era. A unique and fresh perspective."—Paul G. Levine, Los Angeles Times
Author | : Mark Edward Lender |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2016-08-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
An indispensable resource for investigating America's War for Independence, this book provides a comprehensive yet concise narrative that combines the author's original perspectives with the latest scholarship on the subject. Without the War for Independence and its successful outcome for the patriots, the course of American development—our institutions, culture, politics, and economics—would have run in radically different directions. From any perspective, the War for Independence was one of the seminal events of national history. This book offers a clear, easy-to-read, and complete overview of the origins of the imperial crisis, the course of the war, and the ultimate success of the movement for independence. It also emphasizes the human cost of the struggle: the ferocity of the fighting that stemmed from the belief among participants on all sides that defeat was tantamount to cultural, political, and even physical extinction. The narrative encompasses the author's original insights and takes advantage of the newest scholarship on the American Revolution. The book includes primary documents and biographical sketches representative of the various participants in the revolutionary struggle—for example, private soldiers, senior officers, loyalists, women, blacks, and Indians—as well as famous speeches and important American and British official documents. The edited documents offer readers a sense of the actual voices of the revolutionary struggle and a deeper understanding of how primary documents serve historians' narration and interpretation of long-ago events. The result is a new synthesis that brings a deeper understanding of America's defining struggle to an informed public readership as well as college and high school students.
Author | : Edward G. Gray |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190257768 |
The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution introduces scholars, students and generally interested readers to the formative event in American history. In thirty-three individual essays, the Handbook provides readers with in-depth analysis of the Revolution's many sides.
Author | : Thomas P. Slaughter |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2014-06-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0809058340 |
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.