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  • Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom

    Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation

    by Rhys Isaac ...
    Landon Carter, a Virginia planter patriarch, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this astonishingly rich biography, Rhys Isaac mines this remarkable document--and many other sources--to reconstruct Carter's interior world as it plunged into revolution. The aging patriarch, though a fierce supporter of American liberty, was deeply troubled by the rebellion and its ... Read more

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  • The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790

    by Rhys Isaac ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations--primarily religious and political--that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of the cultural anthropologist, Isaac vividly recreates and painstakingly dissects a society in the turmoil of profound inner change. ... Read more

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  • Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom

    Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation

    by Rhys Isaac ...
    Landon Carter, a Virginia planter patriarch, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this astonishingly rich biography, Rhys Isaac mines this remarkable document--and many other sources--to reconstruct Carter's interior world as it plunged into revolution. The aging patriarch, though a fierce supporter of American liberty, was deeply troubled by the rebellion and its ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Northanger Abbey

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  • Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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    From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington’s trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teenage French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette.Chronicling General Lafayette’s years in Washington’s army, Vowell reflects on the ideals of the American Revolution versus the reality of the ... Read more

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  • Crucible of War

    The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766

    by Fred Anderson ...
    In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports us into the maelstrom of international rivalries. With the Seven Years' War, Great Britain decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean — and in the process destroyed an American diplomatic system in which Native Americans had long played a central, balancing role — ... Read more

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  • American Colonies

    The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)

    by Alan Taylor, Eric Foner ...
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    A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American RevolutionsIn the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from milennia past, ... Read more

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  • The First Salute

    A View of the American Revolution

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War.In The First Salute, one of America’s consummate historians crafts a rigorously original view of the American Revolution. Barbara W. Tuchman places the Revolution in the context of the centuries-long conflicts between ... Read more

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  • The Life of George Washington

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  • The Ascent of George Washington

    The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon

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    Perhaps the most revered American of all, George Washington has long been considered a stoic leader who held himself above the fray of political infighting. What has gone unnoticed about the much-researched life of Washington is that he was in fact a consummate politician, as historian John Ferling shows in this revealing and provocative new book. As leader of the Continental Army, Washington's ... Read more

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