Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
Spies of Revolutionary Connecticut
From Benedict Arnold to Nathan Hale
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Covert intelligence played a critical role in the American Revolution. Connecticut produced an extraordinary number of spies on both sides of the conflict, from the infamous traitor and Norwich-born Benedict Arnold to Patriot Nathan Hale, executed by the British for espionage. Spying during the Revolution...
The Power of the Purse
A History of American Public Finance, 1776-1790
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In The Power of the Purse, E. James Ferguson examines the intricate financial history of the American Revolution and the Confederation and connects it to political and constitutional developments in the period. Whether states or Congress should pay the debts of the Revolution and collect the taxes...
Peckuwe 1780
The Revolutionary War on the Ohio River Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
As the Revolutionary War raged on fields near the Atlantic, Native Americans and British rangers fought American settlers on the Ohio River frontier in warfare of unsurpassed ferocity. When their attacks threatened to drive the Americans from their settlements in Kentucky, Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton...
The Autobiography Manuscript of Major Amos Stoddard
Edited and with an Introduction by Robert A. Stoddard
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
The Autobiography Manuscript of Major Amos Stoddard is part biography, and part autobiography. It is the story of the life and times of Major Amos Stoddard, the first civil commandant and governor of Upper Louisiana. Amos Stoddard tragically died at the siege of Fort Meigs (Ohio) during the War...
The Battle of Camden
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2006
First-person accounts and historical analyses of this dramatic Revolutionary War battle in South Carolina.
On the foggy morning of August 16, 1780, American and British armies clashed in the pine woods north of Camden, South Carolina, in one of the most important and influential battles of...
by David Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2000
David Humphreys was aide-de-camp to Washington during the American Revolution. His Life of Israel Putnam, originally published in 1788, has rightly been described as “the first biography of an American written by an American.” It is, as William C. Dowling observes, “a classic of revolutionary...
by Keith A. Brough, Frank Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
General Ward’s Colonial Army is an enlightening collection of articles giving the history of the Massachusetts minute-men and militia that first engaged the British during the Revolutionary War. When this series was originally published for The Massachusetts Magazine, 1908–1918, the periodical proved...
Unsettling the West
Violence and State Building in the Ohio Valley
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
The revolutionary Ohio Valley is often depicted as a chaotic Hobbesian dystopia, in which Indians and colonists slaughtered each other at every turn. In Unsettling the West, Rob Harper overturns this familiar story. Rather than flailing in a morass, the peoples of the revolutionary Ohio Valley actively...
The Citizenship Revolution
Politics and the Creation of the American Union, 1774-1804
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2009
Most Americans believe that the ratification of the Constitution in 1788 marked the settlement of post-Revolutionary disputes over the meanings of rights, democracy, and sovereignty in the new nation. In The Citizenship Revolution, Douglas Bradburn undercuts this view by showing that the Union, not...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
This significant historical book on a vital aspect of the Revolutionary War - the Virginia campaign, the blockade and siege of Yorktown, and the role of the French in the American Revolution. It was written by the Army War College in 1931.
Contents: Part I - Yorktown, 1781 * Part II - The French-American...
The Martyr and the Traitor
Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In September 1776, two men from Connecticut each embarked on a dangerous mission. One of the men, a soldier disguised as a schoolmaster, made his way to British-controlled Manhattan and began furtively making notes and sketches to bring back to the beleaguered Continental Army general, George Washington....
Three To Ride
A Ride That Defied An Empire and Spawned A New Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Three to Ride chronicles the events leading to the actions taken by British colonists in America against British troops, ultimately concluding in independence for the colonies. The subject is explored over time, beginning with discord between a number of English subjects and the religious teachings...
George Washington's War
In Caricature and Print
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
A Revolutionary War history told through eighteenth-century illustrations: “Utterly absorbing” (The Times, London).
Americans are steeped in the history of the American Revolution, but often the fog of myth shrouds the reality. In these pages, the path to war is starkly documented by British...
Laboratories of Virtue
Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Michael Meranze uses Philadelphia as a case study to analyze the relationship between penal reform and liberalism in early America. In Laboratories of Virtue, he interprets the evolving system of criminal punishment as a microcosm of social tensions that characterized the early American republic....