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“charles stuart kennedy”

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  • The American Consul

    A History of the United States Consular Service 1776–1924.

    by Charles Stuart Kennedy ...
    This definitive study of the U.S. Consular Service examines its history from the Revolutionary War until its integration with the Foreign Service in 1924.As a British colony, Americans relied on the British consular system to take care of their sailors and merchants. But after the Revolution they scrambled to create an American service. While the American diplomatic establishment was confined to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Men Who Lost America

    British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire

    by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    Questioning popular belief, a historian and re-examines what exactly led to the British Empire's loss of the American Revolution.The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving ... Read more

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  • Bacteria and Bayonets

    The Impact of Disease in American Military History

    by David Petriello ...
    A fascinating look at how microbes have affected war outcomes from colonial times to the present.Various powerful enemies from the British to the Nazis, and legendary individuals including Tecumseh and Robert E. Lee, have all fallen before the arms of the American soldier. Yet the deadliest enemy faced by the nation, one that has killed more warriors than all its foes combined, is disease.But ... Read more

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  • Knights of the Sea

    The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812

    by David Hanna ...
    On a September day in 1813, as citizens watched from the rocky shore of Pemaquid, Maine, two of the last and bravest military sailing commanders engaged in a battle that would change the course of the War of 1812...Samuel Blyth was the youthful commander of His Britannic Majesty’s brig Boxer, and William Burrows, younger still, commanded the USS Enterprise. Both men valued honor above all, and on ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Complete Concise History of the Slave Trade

    by Olayanju Olajide ...
    This book is written mainly from my experience since my arrival in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s. I came to the UK before I came in contact with any Afro American or Caribbean. In Nigeria I know some people whose parents originally returned to Nigeria from Brazil and Cuba. The names of these great people are household names in Nigeria and particularly in Lagos. The more I stay in the UK ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • The Colonization of North America

    by Herbert Bolton ...
    The book is divided into three main parts: I. The Founding of the Colonies; II. Expansion and International Conflict; III. The Revolt of the English Colonies. The keynote is expansion. The spread of civilization in America has been presented against a broad European background. Not only colonial beginnings but colonial growth has been traced. This method accounts for the development of all ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of the United States

    by John Bach McMaster ...
    Feeling in Spain.—America, at this time, was to the Spaniard a land of vague, but magnificent promise, where the simple natives wore unconsciously the costliest gems, and the sands of the rivers sparkled with gold. Every returning ship brought fresh news to quicken the pulse of Spanish enthusiasm. Now, Cortez had taken Mexico, and reveled in the wealth of the Montezumas; now, Pizarro had conquered ... Read more

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  • Confronting Black Jacobins

    The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic

    by Gerald Horne ...
    The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared independence in 1804, the leading powers—France, Great Britain, and Spain—suffered an ignominious defeat and the New World was remade. The island revolution also had a profound impact on Haiti’s mainland neighbor, the United States. Inspiring the enslaved and ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Colonization of North America

    European Expansion and Conflict in North America: Beyond the Thirteen Colonies

    by Herbert Eugene Bolton, Thomas Maitland Marshall ...
    This book represents an attempt to bring into one account the story of European expansion in North America down to 1783. The authors wrote this book in response to a clear demand for a text written from the standpoint of North America as a whole, and giving a more adequate treatment of the colonies of nations other than England and of the English colonies other than the thirteen which revolted. ... Read more

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  • Africa's Gift to America

    by J. A. Rogers ...
    A classic work of black study that shines a light on the accomplishments of African people within Western history—from the groundbreaking journalist.Originally published in 1959 and revised and expanded in 1989, this book asserts that Africans had contributed more to the world than was previously acknowledged. Historian Joel Augustus Rogers devoted a significant amount of his professional life to ... Read more

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  • The American Revolutionary War and The War of 1812

    People, Politics, and Power

    by Jeff Wallenfeldt ...
    Series series America at War
    Many Americans buoy their national pride and patriotism in the tableau of the American Revolution—in which every day men rose up against taxation from abroad to defeat one of the most powerful countries in the world at the time. From the midnight ride of Paul Revere to the cold winter at Valley Forge, American freedom was a right proudly won. This book investigates the important battles, speeches, ... Read more

    $56.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus