Chronological Period/18th Century
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Black Church Beginnings: The Long-Hidden Realities of the First Years
$25.99 Add to cartBlack Church Beginnings provides an intimate look at the struggles of African Americans to establish spiritual communities in the harsh world of slavery in the American colonies. Written by one of tod… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Henry H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 197
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0802827853
- Language: English
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Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks: Fifty Of The Grittiest Moments In The History Of Hardscrabble New England
$16.95 Add to cartThe story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating stories of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks will take the top fifty wil… [more below]
- Author: Mayo, Matthew P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0762759682
- Language: English
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The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas
$21.99 Add to cartA brilliant account of the proud and ferocious American fighters who stood up to the British forces in savage battles crucial in deciding both the fate of the Carolina colonies and the outcome of the … [more below]
- Author: Buchanan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0471327166
- Language: English
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Selected Essays
$13.95 Read moreIn his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540306
- Language: English
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Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age
$75.00 Add to cartA fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller–from William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft to Benjamin Franklin
Once a week, in late- Author: Hay, Daisy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0691243964
- Language: English
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Journal of the American Revolution 2022: Annual Volume
$40.00 Read moreThe year’s best articles from the leading on-line source of new research on the Revolution and Founding eras
The Journal of the American Revolution, Annual Volume 2022, presents the journal’s best hi- Author: Hagist, Don N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1594163855
- Language: English
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The Spirit of 74: How the American Revolution Began
$31.45 Add to cartHow ordinary people went from resistance to revolution: ” A] concise, lively narrative . . . the authors expertly build tension.” —Publishers Weekly
Americans know about the Boston Tea Party and “th- Author: Raphael, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1620971267
- Language: English
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Patrick Henry
$32.99 Add to cart“A brilliant orator, a firebrand for freedom and individual rights, Henry stands as an American luminary, and Kukla’s magisterial biography shines the glow of achievement on subject and author alike” … [more below]
- Author: Kukla, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1439190828
- Language: English
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Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More ?Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
$24.99 Read moreWith a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace.
The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain’s upper classes, and
- Author: Prior, Karen Swallow
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1400206251
- Language: English
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American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795
$17.99 Read moreNew attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slaver
- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 132407521X
- Language: English
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The Travels of William Bartram: Naturalist Edition
$38.95 Add to cartFor years, serious naturalists have treasured their copies of Francis Harper’s naturalist’s edition of The Travels of William Bartram as the definitive version of Bartram’s pioneering survey. Complete
- Author: Bartram, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 824
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0820320277
- Language: English
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George Washington’s Barbados Diary, 1751-52
$37.95 Add to cartIn the autumn of 1751, at the age of nineteen, George Washington sailed with his older half-brother Lawrence from Virginia to the Caribbean island of Barbados–the one and only time that the future Re
- Author: Washington, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0813941377
- Language: English
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The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World
$19.99 Add to cartFrank Lambert details America’s nineteenth-century conflicts in the Middle East in The Barbary Wars.
The history of America’s conflict with the piratical states of the Mediterranean runs through the pr- Author: Lambert, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0809028115
- Language: English
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Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
$30.99 Add to cart“Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read.” –Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books
Since his- Author: Scurr, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0805082611
- Language: English
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The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution
$19.99 Add to cartThe Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which the founding fathers struggled for four months to produce the Constitution: the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation-… [more below]
- Series: Simon & Schuster America Collection
- Author: Stewart, David O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2008
- ISBN10: 0743286936
- Language: English
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A General History of the Pyrates
$39.95 Add to cartFamed for his enduring fictional masterpieces Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe also possessed considerable expertise in maritime affairs. As a commission merchant, importer, shipowner,
- Series: Dover Maritime
- Author: Defoe, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: January 26 1999
- ISBN10: 0486404889
- Language: English
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Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
$34.99 Add to cartAmerica’s founders intended to liberate us not just from one king but from the ghostly tyranny of supernatural religion. Drawing deeply on the study of European philosophy, Matthew Stewart brilliantly
- Author: Stewart, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 580
- Publish Date: July 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351297
- Language: English
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Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier
$29.99 Add to cartJames Merrell’s brilliant book is an account of the “go-betweens,” the Europeans and Indians who moved between cultures on the Pennsylvania frontier in efforts to maintain the peace. It is also a refl
- Author: Merrell, James H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393319768
- Language: English
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Basic Writings of Kant
$20.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Allen W. Wood
The writings of Immanuel Kant became the cornerstone of all subsequent philosophical inquiry. They articulate the r
With translations by F. Max M ller and Thomas K. Abbott- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757333
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems
$22.00 Read more“O pure of heart! thou need’st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be!”
One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge created works of remarkable diversity- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140423532
- Language: English
