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AFTER THE REVOLUTION: Profiles of Early American Culture
by Joseph J. Ellis. Charles Bird King 1830 cover illustrations. B&W photos & drawings illustrate. Condition: NEW c. 1981 W. W. Norton Trade Paperback, sixth printing. Odd binder's glue string top half spine. Interior perfect. Content: Through portraits of four figures—Charles Willson Peale, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, William Dunlap, and Noah Webster—Joseph Ellis provides a unique perspective on the role of culture in post-Revolutionary America, both its high expectations and its frustrations. Each life is fascinating in its own right, and each is used to brightly illuminate the historical context. [1 copy available]
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COLONISTS FOR SALE: The Story of Indentured Servants in America
by Clifford Lindsey Alderman. Condition: Good only, 1975 Macmillan hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. EX-library book with all markings and then some. The interior is actually quite clean & tight. Content: This book examines the origin, working conditions, and eventual fate of indentured servants in America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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THE GOLDEN ROCK: An Episode of the American War of Independence
by Ronald Hurst. Two B&W photo sections. End pages decorated with map of the area. Condition: NEW 1996 Naval Institute Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. Most likely first thus, first printing. Content: The story of the tiny Dutch island of St Eustatius - the Golden Rock - in the Lesser Antilles, once the richest trading centre in the Caribbean and a major source of supply for arms and necessaries for the American rebels in the War of Independence, will be known to few, other than students of that war or British naval history. The events which followed Britain's declaration of war on the Dutch in December 1870, to pre-empt a threatened alliance with Britain's enemies, France and Spain, and the consequent seizure of the island in February 1781, by Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney and Major-General Sir John Vaughan, reflect little credit upon those joint-Commanders-in Chief or, indeed, upon the government of King George III. After some years of extensive and penetrating research, Ronald Hurst has pieced together the whole story and given us a fascinating and wholly authentic account of the rape of St Eustatius and its aftermath. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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INEQUALITY IN EARLY AMERICA
edited by Carla Gardina Pestana & Sharon V. Salinger. B&W charts. Condition: NEW 1999 University Press of New England Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: Dedicated to the great Gary Nash, this book contains essays by 15 historians of early America who examine the concept and the reality of inequality in early American society, covering religion, material culture, slavery, and gender. The essays show how inequality was both resisted and defended at the time. They also honor the outstanding scholarship of Gary Nash in this field. It was Nash's book,"Red, White, and Black" that led to a major reassessment of Colonial American history. These essays are, in effect, the result of his insights into the nature and impact of inequality in Colonial and Revolutionary America. Contributors: Richard Dunn, Sylvia Frey, Thomas Ingersoll, Philip Morgan, Gary Nash, Mary Beth Norton, J. Richard Olivas, Neal Salisbury, Ronald Schultz, Billy G. Smith, Sterling Snickey, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Peter Wood, and the editors. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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PATRIOTS: The Men Who Started the AmericanREvolution
by A. J. Langguth. B&W photos throughout. B&W maps, as well. Condition: UNREAD c. 1989 Touchstone large Trade Paperback (637 pages), first printing. Impressions on front cover near hinge. Content: Working with contemporary letters and public statements, Langguth, who heads the journalism department at the University of Southern California, produces a closely knit and continuously interesting drama of the American Revolution by following the principal and secondary actors, from Prime Minister George Grenville and his plan to raise revenues by a stamp tax in the colonies to General Washington's farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern. Figures whose names are familiar but whose deeds are vaguely known are brought into sharp focus. We know, for instance, that Benedict Arnold is our most infamous traitor, but not necessarily what drove him to do whatever it was he did, precisely. Washington definitely crossed the Delaware, but what did he do when he reached the other side? Read this rousing history and find out. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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UNDREAMED SHORES: England's Wasted Empire in America -- A Story of Rogues, Pirates, High-Flying Ambition and Plain Greed
by Michael Foss. B&W era illustrations & maps. Condition: NEW 1988 Phoenix Press (London) Trade Paperback reprint. Content: Unveils the true story of devious policy, misplaced idealism, high-flying ambition and greed. Features the visionary John Cabot, the incalculable Walter Raleigh, the rogue Thomas Stukeley, and the idealist Humphrey Gilbert among a cast of sailors, colonists and Indians. [1 copy available]
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THE ROYAL OPPOSITION: The Story of the British Generals in the American Revolution
by Clifford Lindsey Alderman. Condition: 1970 Crowell-Collier Press (London) hardcover & DJ. Ex-library book with all markings, but appears to have never been checked out. First printing. Interior clean & very tight. Content: Profiles of English generals who fought in our Revolutionary War: G. Thomas Gage, Sir Guy Carleton, John Burgoyne, Sir Henry Clinton, and Earl Charles Cornwallis. B&W illustrations. [1 copy available]
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