Looks at the history of the United States during the period before, during, and after the Revolutionary War, especially focusing on the circumstances in colonial life that led Americans to fight for their independence from Britain.
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"Recreates the enlightened culture of an eighteenth-century statesman, botanist, historian, cartographer, and natural philosopher who claimed to have discovered the cause of gravity and who also became one of the most hated political figures in pre-Revolutionary New York"--
"Recreates the enlightened culture of an eighteenth-century statesman, botanist, historian, cartographer, and natural philosopher who claimed to have discovered the cause of gravity and who also became one of the most hated political figures in pre-Revolutionary New York"--
This study discusses how an immense diversity of ethnic and religious groups became sorted into a set of distinct regional societies in North America.
Examines the freedoms enjoyed by colonial American followers of the British king in the years prior to the American Revolution.
"The Freedoms We Lost is an ambitious historical analysis of the American revolution that reinterprets the gains and losses experienced by ordinary Americans and challenges the easy narrative that subsumes the growth of 'freedom' into the story of the American nation. Esteemed h…
Examines the freedoms enjoyed by colonial American followers of the British king in the years prior to the American Revolution.
The First Great Awakening, an unprecedented surge in Protestant Christian revivalism in the eighteenth century, sparked enormous controversy at the time and has been a source of scholarly debate ever since. Few historians have sought to write a synthetic history of the First Gre…
"After he explored the Great Lakes and the entire Mississippi, Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, was murdered by his own men when he led them on a disastrous mission to Texas. But the vast land he claimed for France in 1682 could have become - had it not been for a few tw…
