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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 434 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the political disputes that surrounded America's 1776 Declaration of Independence, offering insight into the views of Parliament sympathizers and colonists who stayed loyal to Britain.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 701 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Winning Independence is the dramatic story of how and why Great Britain--so close to regaining several southern colonies and rendering the postwar United States a fatally weak nation--ultimately failed to win the war. The book explores the choices and decisions made by Clinton and Washington, and others, that ultimately led the French and American allies to clinch the pivotal victory at Yorktown that at long last secured American independence." --...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 409 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Written in the authoritative and narrative-driven style that has made his books critical and commercial successes, John Ferling's Whirlwind will become the definitive history of the American Revolution for our time. This master historian illuminates the years 1763 to 1783--from the end of the French and Indian War that left England triumphant in North America to the signing of the Treaty of Paris and the final departure of British troops from New...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A spellbinding history of the epic rivalry that shaped our republic: Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and their competing visions for America... The decade of the 1790s has been called the 'age of passion.' Fervor ran high as rival factions battled over the course of the new republic-- each side convinced that the other's goals would betray the legacy of the Revolution so recently fought and so dearly won. All understood as well that what was...
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