Revolutions & Wars of Independence
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Long Island City in 1776: The Revolution Comes to Queens
$23.99 Read more1775 belonged to Boston but after April of 1776, the Revolutionary War’s focus became New York City and the highly strategic Long Island, from Brooklyn’s terminal moraine high ground to Queens’s Hell … [more below]
- Series: Military
- Author: Melnick, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1467140953
- Language: English
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The Zapatista Reader
$25.99 Add to cartThe electrifying effect the Zapatista peasant rebellion has had on leading figures in the intellectual, political, and literary world since the Zapatistas woke them up on New Year’s Day, 1994, has pro… [more below]
- Series: Nation Books
- Author: Hayden, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 04 2002
- ISBN10: 1560253355
- Language: English
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The Coming of the French Revolution
$22.95 Add to cartThe classic book that restored the voices of ordinary people to our understanding of the French Revolution
The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the or- Series: Princeton Classics #19
- Author: Lefebvre, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168466
- Language: English
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We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
$17.99 Add to cartLONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL
Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section
- Author: Pearlman, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 0062654446
- Language: English
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The American Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the American Revolutionary War and the United States of America’s Struggle for Independence fro
$29.99 Add to cartExplore the Captivating History of the American Revolution
In an era where political discourse is becoming increasingly polarized, it is worth reflecting on the circumstances of America’s foundation.
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- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: January 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1647482526
- Language: English
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Gideon’s Revolution
$27.95 Add to cartIt’s 1780, days after Benedict Arnold flees to the British when his treasonous plot to surrender the American fort at West Point is discovered and Gideon’s Revolution is about to begin. General George
- Author: Carso, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501771515
- Language: English
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Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution
$28.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood elucidates the debates over the founding documents of the United States.
The half century extending from the imperial crisis- Author: Wood, Gordon S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0197546919
- Language: English
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George Washington and the Irish: Incredible Stories of the Irish Spies, Soldiers, and Workers Who Helped Free America
$26.99 Read moreDiscover the untold story of the vital role the Irish played in the American Revolution.
George Washington changed the world and saved democracy by defeating the British during the American War of Ind- Author: O’Dowd, Niall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1510769390
- Language: English
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Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They have often, though not always, sparked cataclysmic violence, and h… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Goldstone, Jack A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0197666302
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Blacks: Discovering the Frank Brothers, Freeborn Men of Color, Soldiers of Independence
$35.00 Read moreWilliam and Benjamin Frank joined the Second Rhode Island Regiment in the spring of 1777, following the tradition of military service established by their father, a veteran of the French and Indian Wa
- Author: Green, Shirley L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1594164061
- Language: English
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On Wings of Eagles
$18.00 Add to cart#1 bestselling author Ken Follett tells the inspiring true story of the Middle East hostage crisis that began in 1978, and of the unconventional means one American used to save his countrymen. . . .
W- Author: Follett, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 07 2004
- ISBN10: 0451213092
- Language: English
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The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolours. Beginning in 1789, this period of extre… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Doyle, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198840071
- Language: English
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The Russian Revolution: A New History
$21.99 Add to cartA “powerful revisionist history” (Times UK) illuminating the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution
In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events whic- Author: McMeekin, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675487
- Language: English
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Revolutions
$12.99 Add to cartFrom 1789 in France to 2011 in Cairo, revolutions have shaken the world. In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Goldstone, Jack A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0199858500
- Language: English
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
$14.00 Add to cartBurke’s seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack o… [more below]
- Series: English Library
- Author: Burke, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 16 1982
- ISBN10: 0140432043
- Language: English
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The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld
$21.99 Add to cartThe history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn’t been discovered . . . the development of San Francisco’s underworld in al… [more below]
- Author: Asbury, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 09 2002
- ISBN10: 1560254084
- Language: English
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Lafayette
$41.99 Add to cartAcclaim for Lafayette
“I found Mr. Unger’s book exceptionally well done. It’s an admirable account of the marquis’s two revolutions-one might even say his two lives–the French and the American. It al- Author: Unger, Harlow Giles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0471394327
- Language: English
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War of Lies: When George Washington Was the Target and Propaganda Was the Crime
$19.99 Add to cartForgeries 18th Century Style Fake News
“I do not really wish for independence. I hope there are few who do,” George Washington, June 18, 1776.
Did General Washington write these words, which newspapers
- Author: Cook, Jane Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988092629
- Language: English
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The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
$24.95 Add to cartThe epic story of an enormous Soviet apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction
The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and- Author: Slezkine, Yuri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1128
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192723
- Language: English
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The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
$30.00 Add to cartThe true operatic tragedy of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico–and faced bloody consequences.
In the 1860s, Napoleon III, intent on curbing the rise o- Author: Shawcross, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1541674197
- Language: English
