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  • The First Scientific American

    Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius

    par Joyce Chaplin ...
    Famous, fascinating Benjamin Franklin -- he would be neither without his accomplishments in science. Joyce Chaplin's authoritative biography considers all of Franklin's work in the sciences, showing how, during the rise and fall of the first British empire, science became central to public culture and therefore to Franklin's success. Having demonstrated in his earliest experiments and observations ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Benjamin Franklin

    An American Life

    par Walter Isaacson ...
    In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Mayflower

    A Story of Courage, Community, and War

    **"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."--**The New York Times Book ReviewFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History**New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the YearWith a new preface marking the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower.**How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of In the Hurricane's Eye and V.. ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Book of Ages

    The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

    par Jill Lepore ...
    National Book Award FinalistFrom one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister and a history of history itself. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. Unlike him, she was a mother of twelve.Benjamin Franklin, who wrote more letters to his ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Barbarous Years

    The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675

    par Bernard Bailyn ...
    **Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.**The immigrants were a mixed multitude. They came from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • Bury the Chains

    Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

    par Adam Hochschild ...
    From the author of King Leopold's Ghost, a narrative history of the social justice campaign formed in the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.In early 1787, twelve men—a printer, a lawyer, a clergyman, and others united by their hatred of slavery—came together in a London printing shop and began the world's first grass-roots movement, battling for the rights of people on another ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Albion's Seed

    Four British Folkways in America

    Collections series America: a cultural history
    This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ... En savoir plus

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Americans: The Colonial Experience

    Collections Livre 1 - Americans Series
    Winner of the Bancroft PrizeIn this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present. ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • The First American

    The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

    par H. W. Brands ...
    **PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this “thorough biography of ... America’s first Renaissance man” (The Washington Post) by the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War."The authoritative Franklin biography for our time.” —Joseph J. Ellis, author ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Shoemaker and the Tea Party

    Memory and the American Revolution

    par Alfred F. Young ...
    George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary ear fifty years after the actual event, this 'common man' in his nineties was ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • When the Mississippi Ran Backwards

    Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes

    par Jay Feldman ...
    From Jay Feldmen comes an enlightening work about how the most powerful earthquakes in the history of America united the Indians in one last desperate rebellion, reversed the Mississippi River, revealed a seamy murder in the Jefferson family, and altered the course of the War of 1812.On December 15, 1811, two of Thomas Jefferson’s nephews murdered a slave in cold blood and put his body parts into ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Ebony and Ivy

    Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities

    A groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian.A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery--setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD