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  • The Weight of Vengeance

    The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812

    par Troy Bickham ...
    In early 1815, Secretary of State James Monroe reviewed the treaty with Britain that would end the War of 1812. The United States Navy was blockaded in port; much of the army had not been paid for nearly a year; the capital had been burned. The treaty offered an unexpected escape from disaster. Yet it incensed Monroe, for the name of Great Britain and its negotiators consistently appeared before ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • From Quills to Tweets

    How America Communicates about War and Revolution

    par Andrea J. Dew, Marc A. Genest, S. C. M. Paine, Troy Bickham, Martin J. Manning, Michelle Getchell, David Silbey, J. Lee Thompson0, Bruce A. Elleman1, Mike Carew2, Steven Casey3, David Kaiser4, Judith Baroody5, Thomas H. Johnson6, Matthew C. DuPée7, Haroro Ingram8, Craig Whiteside9 ...
    While today's presidential tweets may seem a light-year apart from the scratch of quill pens during the era of the American Revolution, the importance of political communication is eternal. This book explores the roles that political narratives, media coverage, and evolving communication technologies have played in precipitating, shaping, and concluding or prolonging wars and revolutions over the ... En savoir plus

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  • The Weight of Vengeance

    The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812

    par Troy Bickham ...
    In early 1815, Secretary of State James Monroe reviewed the treaty with Britain that would end the War of 1812. The United States Navy was blockaded in port; much of the army had not been paid for nearly a year; the capital had been burned. The treaty offered an unexpected escape from disaster. Yet it incensed Monroe, for the name of Great Britain and its negotiators consistently appeared before ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Eating the Empire

    Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain

    par Troy Bickham ...
    When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco, Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea or a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indian curry, were they aware of the mechanisms of imperial rule and trade that made such goods readily available?In Eating the Empire, Troy Bickham unfolds the extraordinary role that food played in shaping Britain during the ‘long’ eighteenth century (c. ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

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    American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies

    par Alan Taylor ...
    In the early nineteenth century, Britons and Americans renewed their struggle over the legacy of the American Revolution, leading to a second confrontation that redefined North America. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor’s vivid narrative tells the riveting story of the soldiers, immigrants, settlers, and Indians who fought to determine the fate of a continent. Would revolutionary ... En savoir plus

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  • Black and British

    A Forgotten History, from the acclaimed historian and star of 'Celebrity Traitors'

    par David Olusoga ...
    Collections series Picador Collection
    Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeWinner of the Longman History Today Trustees’ AwardLonglisted for the Orwell PrizeUnflinching and revealing, Black and British is a vital history that reveals how black British lives have been woven into the fabric of the nation for centuries – from Roman Britain to the Black Lives Matter protests.'Groundbreaking' – The Obser... ... En savoir plus

    $16.79 CAD

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  • Blood and Daring

    How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation

    par John Boyko ...
    Blood and Daring will change our views not just of Canada's relationship with the United States, but of the Civil War, Confederation and Canada itself.In Blood and Daring, lauded historian John Boyko makes a compelling argument that Confederation occurred when and as it did largely because of the pressures of the Civil War. Many readers will be shocked by Canada's deep connection to the war- ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Men Who Lost America

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

    par Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Crucible of War

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

    par 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 — ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

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  • The Glorious Cause

    The American Revolution, 1763-1789

    par Robert Middlekauff ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The Loyalists

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    par Christopher Moore ...
    In 1783 and 1784, some fifty thousand Americans felt that they could not support the revolution against Britain. They were called Loyalists – and there would be no place for them in the new United States.As they streamed into the Canadian colonies to the north, they changed forever the face of settlement there. Their arrival would eventually lead to the formation of the provinces of New Brunswick ... En savoir plus

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  • The Penguin History of the United States of America

    par Hugh Brogan ...
    This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to the Reagan years - captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a broad sweep of America's triumphant progress. Brogan explores the period leading to Independence from both the American and the British points of view, touching on permanent features of 'the American character' - both the good ... En savoir plus

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