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  • The Great New York Fire of 1776

    A Lost Story of the American Revolution

    by Benjamin L. Carp ...
    Who set the mysterious fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War?New York City, the strategic center of the Revolutionary War, was the most important place in North America in 1776. That summer, an unruly rebel army under George Washington repeatedly threatened to burn the city rather than let the British take it. Shortly after ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Women Waging War in the American Revolution

    by Benjamin Carp, Patrick Mullins, Professor Barbara Mann, PhD, Professor Lauren Duval, Steven Elliott, Sean Heuvel, Don Hagist, Martha J. King, Professor Lorri Glover, Carin Bloom, Todd W. Braisted, Jacqueline Beatty, Alisa Wade ...
    America’s War for Independence dramatically affected the speed and nature of broader social, cultural, and political changes including those shaping the place and roles of women in society. Women fought the American Revolution in many ways, in a literal no less than a figurative sense. Whether Loyalist or Patriot, Indigenous or immigrant enslaved or slave-owning, going willingly into battle or ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Rethinking American Disasters

    by Benjamin Carp, Alyssa Fahringer, Caroline Grego, Jonathan Hancock, Scott Knowles, Jane Manners, Richard Mizelle, Sarah Naramore, Ashley Rogers, Thomas Wickman ...
    Rethinking American Disasters is a pathbreaking collection of essays on hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, and other calamities in the United States and British colonial America over four centuries. Proceeding from the premise that there is no such thing as a “natural” disaster, the collection invites readers to consider disasters and their aftermaths as artifacts of and vantage points onto their ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Rebels Rising : Cities and the American Revolution

    Cities and the American Revolution

    by Benjamin L. Carp ...
    The cities of eighteenth-century America packed together tens of thousands of colonists who met each other in back rooms and plotted political tactics debated the issues of the day in taverns and mingled together on the wharves or in the streets. In this fascinating work historian Benjamin L. Carp shows how these various urban meeting places provided the tinder and spark for the American ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Rebels Rising

    Cities and the American Revolution

    by Benjamin L. Carp ...
    The cities of eighteenth-century America packed together tens of thousands of colonists, who met each other in back rooms and plotted political tactics, debated the issues of the day in taverns, and mingled together on the wharves or in the streets. In this fascinating work, historian Benjamin L. Carp shows how these various urban meeting places provided the tinder and spark for the American ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

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    The Great New York Fire of 1776

    A Lost Story of the American Revolution

    by Benjamin L. Carp ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 50 min

    Who set the mysterious fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War?New York City, the strategic center of the Revolutionary War, was the most important place in North America in 1776. That summer, an unruly rebel army under George Washington repeatedly threatened to burn the city rather than let the British take it. Shortly after ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Defiance of the Patriots

    The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America

    by Benjamin L. Carp ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 31 min

    On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of disguised Bostonians boarded three merchant ships and dumped more than forty-six tons of tea into Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party, as it later came to be known, was an audacious and revolutionary act. It set the stage for war and cemented certain values in the American psyche that many still cherish today. But why did the Tea Party happen? Whom ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Regulating the Web

    Network Neutrality and the Fate of the Open Internet

    by John Nathan Anderson, Jeremy Carp, Benjamin Cline, Michael Daubs, Brian Dolber, Daniel Faltesek, Michael Felczak, Mark Grabowski, Pallavi Guniganti, Danny Kimball, Isabella Kulkarni, Patrick Schmidt, Tina Sikka, Daniel Sprumont ...
    Since its popularization in the mid 1990s, the Internet has impacted nearly every aspect of our cultural and personal lives. Over the course of two decades, the Internet remained an unregulated medium whose characteristic openness allowed numerous applications, services, and websites to flourish. By 2005, Internet Service Providers began to explore alternative methods of network management that ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

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  • A People's History of the American Revolution

    How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence

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    "The best single-volume history of the Revolution I have read." —Howard ZinnUpon its initial publication, Ray Raphael's magisterial A People's History of the American Revolution was hailed by NPR's Fresh Air as "relentlessly aggressive and unsentimental." With impeccable skill, Raphael presented a wide array of fascinating scholarship within a single volume, employing a bottom-up approach that has ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Scars of Independence

    America's Violent Birth

    by Holger Hoock ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICEA magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America's founding**The American Revolution is often portrayed as an orderly, restrained rebellion, with brave patriots defending their noble ideals against an oppressive empire. It’s a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the war. But as historian Holger Hoock ... Read more

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  • Tories

    Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War

    by Thomas B. Allen ...
    An "evocatively written examination" of the Americans who fought alongside the British during the American Revolution ( American Spectator).The American Revolution was not simply a battle between the independence-minded colonists and the oppressive British. As Thomas B. Allen reminds us, it was also a savage and often deeply personal civil war, in which conflicting visions of America pitted ... Read more

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  • The American Revolution on Long Island

    by Joanne S Grasso ...
    A history of the Revolutionary War and British occupation in this part of New York, from the Culper spy ring to the prison ships where thousands died.The American Revolution sharply divided families and towns on New York's Long Island. Washington's defeat at the Battle of Long Island in August 1776 started seven years of British occupation—and Patriot sympathizers were subject to loyalty oaths, ... Read more

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