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"An illustrated collection of essays that explores the international dimensions of the American Revolution and its legacies in both America and around the world."--Provided by publisher.

Recreates the journeys of American loyalists who fled the country after the Revolutionary War, hoping to escape persecution from those who held them accountable for fighting for the British in the war.

Details major events of the U.S. Civil War, as well as the war's cultural impact.

Introduces Roman mythology, legendary characters, and stories, and shows the influence of Roman myths on modern culture.

"This book details major events of the U.S. Civil War, as well as the war's cultural impact"--Provided by publisher.

In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism it hoped would dominate the American hemisphere. From pulsing port cities to Midwestern farms and southern plantations, an adolescent nation hailed Latin America?s independence movements as glorious tropical reprises of 1776. Even as Latin Americans were gradually ending slavery, U.S. observers remained energized by the belief that their founding ideals were triumphing over European tyranny among their ?sister republics.? But as slavery became a violently divisive issue at home, goodwill toward antislavery revolutionaries waned. By the nation?s fiftieth anniversary, republican efforts abroad had become a scaffold upon which many in the United States erected an ideology of white U.S. exceptionalism that would haunt the geopolitical landscape for generations. Marshaling groundbreaking research in four languages, Caitlin Fitz defines this hugely significant, previously unacknowledged turning point in U.S. history.

In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Russia's Tsar Nicholas II. Vladimir Lenin's Russian Revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the Tsar. His goal was a world-wide revolt that would topple all Western capitalist regimes---starting with the British Empire.

Explores the material, political, intellectual, and spiritual impact of the enormous loss of life resulting from the Civil War in America, and looks at how military personnel and civilians dealt with the carnage on both practical and spiritual levels.

Text and illustrations explore the causes and effects of the Civil War, along with the positive and negative outcomes of the war.

Contains nine essays in which scholars explore the results of the American Revolution, looking at the conflict from the vantage points of the elites and the yeomen farmers, examining the ways in which liberty was appropriated, and discussing the kinds of radicalism that arose late in the revolutionary era due to a frustration that the war had not brought about promised changes.