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The Glorious Cause
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 18.99The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. Beginning with the French and Indian War and continuing to the election of George Washington as first president,... more...
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas
The University of North Carolina Press 2005; US$ 23.00Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Drawing on a wide range of materials in four languages as well as on her lifetime study of slave groups in the New World, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall explores the persistence of African ethnic identities among the enslaved... more...
Flash of the Spirit
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.95This book reveals how five distinct African civilizations have shaped the specific cultures of their New World descendants. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
The American Revolution, Garrison Life in French Canada and New York
ABC-CLIO 1993; US$ 107.95This eyewitness account by an ensign in the Braunschweig Prinz Friedrich Regiment brings the Northern Campaign of the American Revolution vividly to life. This journal tells about events around Fort Ticonderoga, military ways, life in Quebec, and crossing the Atlantic in the late 1700s. Helga Doblin has translated the work, and Mary C. Lynn provides... more...
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 17.95In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.... more...
George Washington's Great Gamble
McGraw-Hill Education 2010; US$ 26.95One shining yet overlooked moment that changed the course of the Revolutionary War In the opening months of 1781, General George Washington feared his army would fail to survive another campaign season. The spring and summer only served to reinforce his despair, but in late summer the changing circumstances of war presented a once-in-a-war opportunity... more...
Founding Myths
New Press, The 2006; US$ 15.95With wit and flair, Founding Myths exposes the errors and inventions in thirteen of America?s most cherished tales, from Paul Revere?s famous ride to Patrick Henry?s ?Liberty or Death? speech. Exploring the dynamic intersection between history-making and story-making, award-winning author and historian Ray Raphael shows how these fictions?conceived... more...
George Washington's War
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 14.99An exciting trip back in time to the American Revolution, "a reminder of what history can be when written by a master."-- Publishers Weekly more...
God of Liberty
Basic Books 2010; US$ 16.99A top historian narrates the crucial role of religion in shaping the American Revolution and the formation of the Republic more...
Identity in the Shadow of Slavery
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 29.95Addresses issues relating to the gender, ethnic and cultural factors through which enslaved Africans and their descendents interpreted their lives under slavery, thereby creating communities with a shared sense of identity. The focus of the book is on the ways in which identities were formulated under slavery and the ways in which the struggle to escape... more...









