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“robert allison”

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  • The American Revolution

    A Concise History

    by Robert Allison ...
    Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new form of government based on the idea that people have the right to govern themselves. In this lively account, Robert Allison provides a ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Bitter Freedom

    William Stone's Record of Service in the Freedmen's Bureau

    Edited by Suzanne Stone Johnson, Robert Allison Johnson ...
    A firsthand account of evolving race relations in South Carolina during the Reconstruction eraBitter Freedom is an insightful evaluation of the pivotal role of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction in war-torn South Carolina as written by a young bureau agent eager to do his part in rebuilding a divided nation. In early 1866 Major William Stone of the 19th Regiment of the Massachusetts ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Essential Debate on the Constitution

    Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches and Writings

    Edited by Bernard Bailyn, Robert Allison ...
    Return to the nation's founding to rediscover the dramatic original debates--on presidential power, religious liberty, foreign corruption, and more--that still shape our world todayWhen the Constitutional Convention adjourned on September 17, 1787, few Americans anticipated the document that emerged from its secret proceedings. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and the other framers had fashioned ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The American Revolution

    A Concise History

    by Robert Allison ...
    Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new form of government based on the idea that people have the right to govern themselves. In this lively account, Robert Allison provides a ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The Letter Bearer

    A Novel

    by Robert Allison ...
    The Rider has no memory of who he is, where he is, or how he came to be lying—dying— in the brutal heat of the North African desert. Rescued by a band of deserters, the Rider begins to piece together his identity, based on shards of recollection and the letters in his mailbag. The Letter Bearer is unlike any other novel of World War Two. In the midst of profound trauma, terrible warfare, and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sovereignty for Survival

    American Energy Development and Indian Self-Determination

    by James Robert Allison III ...
    Series series The Lamar Series in Western History
    In the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.S. federal laws, turned their attention to the abundant resources buried beneath Native American reservations. By the 1970s, however, a coalition of Native Americans in the Northern Plains had successfully blocked the efforts of powerful energy corporations to develop coal reserves on sovereign Indian ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • Almost A Miracle

    The American Victory in the War of Independence

    by John Ferling ...
    In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports readers to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication. As Ferling demonstrates, it was a war that America came much closer to losing than is now usually remembered. General George ... Read more

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  • The Scratch of a Pen

    1763 and the Transformation of North America

    by Colin G. Calloway ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships. Britain now possessed a vast American empire ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • The Founding Fathers Reconsidered

    by R.B. Bernstein ...
    Here is a concise scholarly yet accessible overview of the brilliant flawed and quarrelsome group of lawyers politicians merchants military men and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ever seen. In The Founding Fathers Reconsidered R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington Franklin Jefferson Adams ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Glorious Cause

    The American Revolution, 1763-1789

    by Robert Middlekauff ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. Beginning with the French and Indian War and continuing to the election of George Washington as first president, Robert Middlekauff offers a panoramic ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • From Midnight to Dawn

    The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad

    by Jacqueline L. Tobin ...
    From Midnight to Dawn presents compelling portraits of the men and women who established the Underground Railroad and traveled it to find new lives in Canada. Evoking the turmoil and controversies of the time, Tobin illuminates the historic events that forever connected American and Canadian history by giving us the true stories behind well-known figures such as Harriet Tubman and John Brown. She ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783

    The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775–1783

    by Matthew H. Spring ...
    Series series Campaigns and Commanders Series
    The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought.This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis of the British Army during the “American rebellion” at both operational and tactical levels. Presenting fresh insights into the speed of British ... Read more

    $15.89 USD