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Encyclopedia of Free Blacks and People of Color in the Americas, 2-Volume Set
Infobase Publishing 2012; US$ 185.00When Columbus arrived in 1492, the first free black person?a sailor?set foot in the Americas. Over the next 400 years, as slavery spread and became entrenched in the Western Hemisphere, free blacks built communities throughout North and South America, playing a critical role in every region, colony, and country. From Canada to the Caribbean to Chile,... more...
The Revolutionary Years, 1775-1789
Potomac Books Inc. 2011; US$ 29.95The creation of American diplomacy and power as an art more...
The Autobiography of a Yankee Mariner
Potomac Books Inc. 2002; US$ 18.95In 1806, when retired sea captain and religious activist Christopher Prince (1751-1832) began to write his lifes story, he wanted simply to leave his family a record of his experiences. Today, his autobiography survives as one of the extremely rare participants accounts of seafaring during the American Revolution. As a literary work, it... more...
Black Patriots and Loyalists
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 17.50We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population—African Americans would still be bound in slavery for nearly another century. Alan Gilbert asks us to rethink what we know about the Revolutionary... more...
The Hessians
Cambridge University Press 1980; US$ 42.00A study of the German auxiliaries who fought with the British against the American colonists. more...
Battle Of Brooklyn 1776
Da Capo Press 2009; US$ 16.95Maryland and Delaware troops sacrificed themselves to cover Washington's retreat from Long Island in one of the most desperate battles in American history. more...
George Washington's Military Genius
Regnery Publishing 2012; US$ 27.95George Washington?s military strategy has been called bumbling at worst and brilliant at best. So which is it? Was George Washington a strategic genius or just lucky? So asks Dave R. Palmer in his new book, George Washington?s Military Genius . An updated edition of Palmer's earlier work, The Way of the Fox , George Washington?s Military Genius... more...
The Swamp Fox
Naval Institute Press 2012; US$ 42.95As one of the Patriot leaders in the Carolinas, the partisan campaign conducted by Brigadier General Francis Marion and his irregular force during the American Revolution prevented South Carolina from completely succumbing to British control during the period between the capture of Charleston in May 1780 and the start of Major General Nathanael Greene?s... more...
Amid a Warring World
Potomac Books Inc. 2012; US$ 60.00The critical role of early American diplomacy in preserving the existence of the United States more...
History, Power, and Identity
University of Iowa Press 1996; US$ 22.00For the past five centuries, indigenous and African American communities throughout the Americas have sought to maintain and recreate enduring identities under conditions of radical change and discontinuity. The essays in this groundbreaking volume document this cultural activity—this ethnogenesis—within and against the broader contexts... more...









