1775-1783, revolution

"Where students of the American founding are inclined to dispute whether the Revolution was liberal, republican, or merely confused, [the author] demonstrates that the American regime embodies an uneasy, fragile, and carefully worked-out compromise between the enlightened despotism espoused by Thomas Hobbes and the classical republicanism defended by Pericles and Demosthenes"--Back cover.

Examines seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century revolutions in England, the United States, and France.

"Soldier, sailor, prisoner of war, and spy, Israel Potter's lively career leads to encounters with historic figures such as Ben Franklin, John Paul Jones, and George III. Based on the memoirs of a Revolutionary War veteran, this novel was acclaimed by The Village Voice as "hilarious, tender, expressive." This edition also includes Potter's autobiography, The Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter."--Provided by publisher.

"Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters-more than a hundred published for the first time-to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, and Martha Washington, among many others."--Amazon.com.

"... Traces every key military event in the path to American independence from a naval perspective, and also brings this important viewpoint to bear on economic, political, and social developments that were fundamental to the success of the Revolution. Offers valuable new insights into American, British, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian history. This unique account of the American Revolution gives us a new understanding of the influence of sea power upon history, of the American path to independence, and of the rise and fall of the British Empire"--Provided by publisher.

Contains the text of the play set during the Revolution in 1777 when a young man takes sides with the Devil against straight laced Puritan respectability.

Provides accounts of the battles, sieges, and campaigns of the American Revolution, describes the progress of the war over six years of fighting, and includes maps.

Readers are encouraged to think like historians and piece together clues from an interview between a reporter and a museum curator about the Revolutionary War to determine its causes, how the war affected people during that time, and the influence of the war on the history of the United States.

A guide to nearly every engagement of war during the American Revolution.

John Treegate, a loyal subject of King George III before the Revolution in 1775, is transformed into a rebel at the Battle of Bunker Hill.