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"Historian H. W. Brands offers a . . . narrative of the American Revolution that shows it to be more than a fight against the British, but also a violent battle among neighbors forced to choose sides, Loyalist and Patriot"--Provided by publisher.

Asserts that the struggle against Great Britain throughout colonial America was led by an upper-class faction seeking the rapid growth and development of the New World, and focuses on five colonies, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina.

Fills in the gaps following the sixteen months in between the Boston Tea Party and the "shot heard 'round the world," or the beginning of the American Revolution.

"World War I and the Russian Revolution together shaped the twentieth century in profound ways ... Dominic Lieven connects the two events, providing both a history of the war's origins from a Russian perspective and an international history of why the revolution happened"--Back cover.

". . . rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it. George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the 'American Revolution': former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams insisted that the British were the real revolutionaries, for attempting to impose radical change without their colonists' consent. . . . Ellis takes a . . . look at the events between 1773 and 1783, recovering a war more brutal than any in American history save the Civil War and discovering a strange breed of 'prudent' revolutionaries, whose prudence proved wise yet tragic when it came to slavery, the original sin that still haunts our land. Written with flair and drama, . . . brings together a cast of familiar and forgotten characters who, taken together, challenge the story we have long told ourselves about our origins as a people and a nation"--.

"[Provides an illustrated history of the Civil War that] brings to life the realities of the war and the people who lived through it. It explains how the politics around slavery led to an unbridgeable divide between North and South and examines the strategies that led to the Union's eventual victory in 1865"--Amazon.

"Narrates the . . . struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln"--Amazon.com.

"The Underground Railroad to the North was salvation for many US slaves before the Civil War. But during the same decades, thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico. In [this book], [the author] tells the story of Mexico's rise as an antislavery republic and a promised land for enslaved people in North America. She describes how Mexico's abolition of slavery challenged US institutions and helped to set the international stage for the US Civil War"--Provided by publisher.

Explores the beginning of the Revolutionary War, discussing the causes and leaders of the rebellion and how the first shots fired at Lexington and Concord began America's long road to independence.