“I wish we could sell them another hill at the same price we did Bunker Hill,” Nathanael Greene wrote to the governor of Rhode Island after the battle of June 17, 1775.
Fought on Breed’s Hill outsid……続きを見る
This richly illustrated volume evokes the early history of the US postal system with 130 new full-color images of artifacts and historical documents from the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum
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On a moonlit night in September 1779, the thunder of cannon fire shattered the calm and echoed across the North Sea as John Paul Jones, the audacious captain of the USS Bonhomme Richard, faced the B……続きを見る
**"Danielle Allen’s excellent book Radical Duke.... [A] meticulous and stylish study... has the potential to significantly rewrite the history of the American Revolution’s intellectual origins.... [……続きを見る
The emergence of the early American republic as a new nation on the world stage conjured rival visions in the eyes of leading statesmen at home and attentive observers abroad. Thomas Jefferson envis……続きを見る
Washington’s Government shows how George Washington’s administrationーthe subject of remarkably little previous studyーwas both more dynamic and more uncertain than previously thought. Rather than s……続きを見る
著者:Daniel Peart
出版社: University of Virginia Press
発売日: 2014年05月05日
In Era of Experimentation, Daniel Peart challenges the pervasive assumption that the present-day political system, organized around two competing parties, represents the logical fulfillment of parti……続きを見る
The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practicesーfrom diaries and poetry, to almanacs and commonplace books, to sermons……続きを見る
American Chronicle: An Inclusive History explores the manner in which the United States evolved from the arrival of the first Europeans, 471 years prior to Columbus, to the rise of Big Business in t……続きを見る
This book takes readers on a captivating journey through the struggle for independence from British colonial rule. From the early tensions that ignited the revolution to the climactic battles and ke……続きを見る
"A splendid piece of work."
ー Edmund Morris
In a unique project, author Daniel Ruddy has carefully extracted Teddy Roosevelt's most relevant and telling commentsーfrom letters, books, speeches, and……続きを見る
The American Revolution has been characterized politically as a united political uprising of the American colonies and militarily as a guerrilla campaign of colonists against the inflexible British ……続きを見る
Updated and revised from the popular 2002 edition**, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a concise study of the American Revolutionary War.**
The American Revolution, or the Ame……続きを見る
This lively history of the American Revolution explores the combat that took place in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.
Much of New York during the Revolutionary era was frontier wilderness, spa……続きを見る
The American Revolution is seen as a colossal defeat of the powerful British Empire by colonial rebels. Yet the British emerged from the conflict in better shape than the newly independent United St……続きを見る
著者:Daniel J. Hulsebosch
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2016年08月26日
According to the traditional understanding of American constitutional law, the Revolution produced a new conception of the constitution as a set of restrictions on the power of the state rather than……続きを見る
The dramatic story of a founding father, his illegitimate son, and the tragedy of their conflict during the American Revolutionーfrom the acclaimed author of The Lincolns.
Ben Franklin is the most l……続きを見る
This biography of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, his only published book, challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating its core political thought as well as the political aspi……続きを見る
No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political discourse of the age. How and for what pur……続きを見る
A wild biography of Daniel Boone that seeks to define and examine the figurehead of the American Man through a rich inspection of the complex and problematic context of American frontier history.
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This publication gives the sword enthusiast an opportunity to observe edged weapons made, for the most part, in the United States that display regional characteristics that often transcend state lin……続きを見る
The Delaware Bay area was a pivotal battleground during the Revolutionary War. Follow along with this history of the Cape May Navy and its part in the War for Independence.
The Delaware Bay during t……続きを見る
From the first shots at Jumonville Glen to the surrender at Appomattox, Rebels and Patriots allows you to campaign with Wolfe or Montcalm, stand with Tarleton at Cowpens or Washington at Yorktown, o……続きを見る
This publication gives the sword enthusiast an opportunity to observe edged weapons made, for the most part, in the United States that display regional characteristics that often transcend state lin……続きを見る
著者:Marcus Daniel
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
A new breed of journalists came to the fore in post-revolutionary America--fiercely partisan, highly ideological, and possessed of a bold sense of vocation and purpose as they entered the fray of po……続きを見る
“A tour de force. . . . No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.” ーGordon S. Wood, New York Review of Books
Our Declaration has already come to be regarded as a semina……続きを見る
著者:Daniel Krebs
出版社: University of Oklahoma Press
発売日: 2013年04月30日
Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they constituted a thi……続きを見る
By 1840, American politics was a paradox-unprecedented freedom and equality for men of European descent, and the simultaneous isolation and degradation of people of African and Native American desce……続きを見る