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Unlikely Allies : How A Merchant, A Playwright, And A Spy Saved The American Revolution

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Joel Richard Paul
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Book, Riverhead Books, 2009
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Deane, Silas, · 1737-1789 · Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, · 1732-1799 · Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d’, · 1728-1810 · Arms transfers · United States · History · 18th century · France · Saratoga Campaign, N.Y., 1777 · Revolution, 1775-1783 · Secret service · Participation, French · Foreign relations · 1775-1783 · Paul, Joel R
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BROWSING (MAIN) E279 .P38 2009 DUE 05-18-10

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The Citizenship Revolution : Politics And The Creation Of The American Union, 1774-1804

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Douglas Bradburn
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Book, University of Virginia Press, 2009
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To those inclined to believe that the ratification of the Constitution assured the importance of national authority and law in the lives of American people, the emphasis on the significance and power of the states as the arbiter of American rights and the character of nationhood may seem strange. But, as Bradburn argues, state control of the ultimate meaning of American citizenship represented the first stable outcome of the crisis of authority, allegiance, and identity that had exploded in the American Revolution-a political settlement delicately reached in the first years of the nineteenth century. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Citizenship · United States · History · 18th century · 19th century · Political culture · Constitutional history · Federal government · Politics and government · 1775-1783 · 1783-1809 · Revolution, 1775-1783 · Influence · Bradburn, Douglas., 1972-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E302.1 .B73 2009 NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E302.1 .B73 2009	NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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American Creation : Triumphs And Tragedies At The Founding Of The Republic

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Joseph J. Ellis
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Book, 1st ed, A. A. Knopf, 2007
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- Table of contents only
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From the prizewinning author of the best-selling Founding Brothers and American Sphinx, a masterly and highly ironic examination of the founding years of our country. But Ellis is equally incisive about their failures, and he makes clear how their inability to abolish slavery and to reach a just settlement with the Native Americans has played an equally important role in shaping our national character. American Creation is a book that delineates an era of flawed greatness, at a time when understanding our origins is more important than ever. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Statesmen · United States · History · 18th century · Politicians · Political culture · National characteristics, American · Revolution, 1775-1783 · 1783-1815 · Politics and government · 1775-1783 · 1783-1809 · Ellis, Joseph J
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(LOWER LEVEL) E302.1 .E44 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E302.1 .E44 2007	AVAILABLE

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Empire And Nation : The American Revolution In The Atlantic World

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edited by Eliga H. Gould and Peter S. Onuf
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Book, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005
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How did events and ideas from elsewhere in the British empire influence development in the thirteen American colonies? The essays in Empire and Nation challenge facile assumptions about the “exceptional” character of the republic’s founding moment, even as they invite readers to think anew about the complex ways in which the Revolution reshaped both American society and the Atlantic world. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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United States · History · Revolution, 1775-1783 · Influence · Social aspects · West Indies · 1775-1783 · Gould, Eliga H · Onuf, Peter S
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(LOWER LEVEL) E209 .E45 2005 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E209 .E45 2005	AVAILABLE

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Washington’s Secret War : The Hidden History Of Valley Forge

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Thomas Fleming
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Book, 1st Smithsonian Books ed, Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2005
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George Washington’s threat to resign during the fateful winter at Valley Forge is just one of the many revelations awaiting the reader in Thomas Fleming’s startling new book. The American Revolution and 1776: Year of Illusions, Thomas Fleming has returned to the American Revolution, demolishing long-accepted fictions of Valley Forge and cutting through layers of myth to reveal a hitherto unknown side of George Washington. While many histories portray Washington as a man who transcended politics, Fleming’s Washington is an exceedingly complex man, a man whose political maneuvering allowed him to retain his command, even as he simultaneously struggled to prevent the Continental Army from dissolving into mutiny at Valley Forge. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Washington, George, · 1732-1799 · Military leadership · Headquarters · Pennsylvania · Valley Forge · United States. · Continental Army · History · Valley Forge (Pa.) · History, Military · 18th century · United States · Revolution, 1775-1783 · Campaigns · Politics and government · 1775-1783 · Fleming, Thomas J
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(LOWER LEVEL) E234 .F58 2005 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E234 .F58 2005	AVAILABLE

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The Unknown American Revolution : The Unruly Birth Of Democracy And The Struggle To Create America

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Gary B. Nash
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Book, Viking, 2005
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In the rows of august marble busts that commemorate the American Revolution, we have lost sight of the true radical spirit of the longest and most disruptive upheaval in our history, argues distinguished American historian Gary B. In this ideal companion volume to Howard Zinn?s classic A People?s History of the United States, Nash re-creates the heady and often-violent excitement that convulsed American lives during the last three decades of the eighteenth century and presents a unique look at the struggle to create a new country. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Democracy · United States · History · 18th century · Radicalism · Revolution, 1775-1783 · Causes · Influence · Politics and government · 1775-1783 · Nash, Gary B
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(LOWER LEVEL) E208 .N33 2005 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E208 .N33 2005	AVAILABLE

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Landon Carter’s Uneasy Kingdom : Revolution And Rebellion On A Virginia Plantation

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Rhys Isaac
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Book, Oxford University Press, 2004
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Landon Carter, a Virginia planter patriarch, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. Not only had Landon’s king betrayed his subjects, but Landon’s own household betrayed him: his son showed insolent defiance, his daughter Judith eloped with a forbidden suitor, all of his slaves conspired constantly, and eight of them made an armed exodus to freedom. Moreover, in this presentation of Landon Carter’s passionate narratives, the diarist becomes an arresting new character in the world’s literature, a figure of Shakespearean proportions, the Lear of his own tragic kingdom. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Carter, Landon, · 1710-1778 · Diaries · Sabine Hall (Richmond County, Va.) · Plantation owners · Virginia · Biography · Gentry · Social life and customs · 18th century · Plantation life · History · 1775-1783 · Social conditions · Revolution, 1775-1783 · Social aspects · United States · Social aspects · Isaac, Rhys
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(LOWER LEVEL) F229.C32 I83 2004 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	F229.C32 I83 2004	AVAILABLE

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Securing American Independence : John Jay And The French Alliance

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Frank W. Brecher
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Book, Praeger, 2003
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Jay, John, · 1745-1829 · Vergennes, Charles Gravier, · comte de, · 1719-1787 · Statesmen · United States · Biography · France · Foreign relations · 1775-1783 · History · Revolution, 1775-1783 · Peace · Participation, French · Brecher, Frank W
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(LOWER LEVEL) E302.6.J4 B74 2003 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E302.6.J4 B74 2003	AVAILABLE

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Daily Life During The American Revolution

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Dorothy Denneen Volo and James M. Volo
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Book, Greenwood Press, 2003
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Looking at the war and society from many angles, the book’s 20 chapters cover such important topics as radicals, Tories, taxation, the French, the Hessians, prisoner-of-war conditions, fashion, leisure time activities, and war on the frontier, among others. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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United States · History · Revolution, 1775-1783 · Social aspects · Social life and customs · 1775-1783 · Social conditions · To 1865 · Volo, Dorothy Denneen, 1949- · Volo, James M., 1947-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E209 .V65 2003 AVAILABLE

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Gentleman Revolutionary : Gouverneur Morris, The Rake Who Wrote The Constitution

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Richard Brookhiser
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Book, Free Press, 2003
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Since 1996, Richard Brookhiser has devoted himself to recovering the Founding for modern Americans. Among them, no Founding Father demonstrates the combination of temptations and talents quite so vividly as the least known of the greats, Gouverneur Morris. As Brookhiser shows in this sparkling narrative, Morris’s story is not only crucial to the Founding, it is also one of the most entertaining and instructive of all. Gouverneur Morris, more than Washington, Jefferson, or even Franklin, is the Founding Father whose story can most readily touch our hearts, and whose character is most sorely needed today. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Morris, Gouverneur, · 1752-1816 · United States. · Constitution · Signers · Biography · Statesmen · United States · History · Revolution, 1775-1783 · New York (State) · Politics and government · 1775-1783 · 1783-1789 · Brookhiser, Richard
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(LOWER LEVEL) E302.6.M7 B76 2003 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E302.6.M7 B76 2003	AVAILABLE

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Spain And The Independence Of The United States : An Intrinsic Gift

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Thomas E. Chávez
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Book, 1st ed, University of New Mexico Press, 2002
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The role of Spain in the birth of the United States is a little known and little understood aspect of U.S. independence. Based on primary research in the archives of Spain, this book is about United States history at its very inception, placing the war in its broadest international context. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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United States · History · Revolution, 1775-1783 · Participation, Spanish · Foreign relations · 1775-1783 · Spain · Chavez, Thomas E
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(LOWER LEVEL) E269.S63 C47 2002 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E269.S63 C47 2002	AVAILABLE

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George Washington Papers At The Library Of Congress, 1741- 1799

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Setting The World Ablaze : Washington, Adams, Jefferson, And The American Revolution

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John Ferling
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Book, Oxford University Press, 2000
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Setting the World Ablaze is the story of the three men who, perhaps more than any others, helped bring the United States into being: George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. Braiding three strands into one rich narrative, John Ferling brings these American icons down from their pedestals to show them as men of flesh and blood, and gives us a new understanding of the passion and uncertainty of the struggle to form a new nation. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Washington, George, · 1732-1799 · Adams, John, · 1735-1826 · Jefferson, Thomas, · 1743-1826 · Statesmen · United States · Biography · History · Revolution, 1775-1783 · Politics and government · 1775-1783 · Ferling, John E
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(LOWER LEVEL) E302.5 .F46 2000 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E302.5 .F46 2000	AVAILABLE

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The Creation Of America : Through Revolution To Empire

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Francis Jennings
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Book, Cambridge University Press, 2000
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In the standard presentation of the American Revolution, a ragtag assortment of revolutionaries, inspired by the ideals of liberty and justice, rise to throw off the yoke of the British empire and bring democracy to the New World. We witness the founders’ invasion and attempted conquest of Canada and the “conquest” of Pennsylvania as Quakers and German pietists were deprived of citizenship rights and despoiled of property through armed force and legal trickery. By including the whole population in its history, Jennings provides an eloquent explanation for a host of anomalies, ambiguities, and iniquities that have followed in the Revolution’s wake. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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United States · Politics and government · 1775-1783 · History · Revolution, 1775-1783 · Causes · Jennings, Francis, 1918-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E210 .J43 2000 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E210 .J43 2000	AVAILABLE

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American Eras : The Revolutionary Era, 1754-1783

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edited by Robert J. Allison
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Book, Gale Research, 1998
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United States · Civilization · To 1783 · History · Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 · Revolution, 1775-1783 · Social life and customs · To 1775 · 1775-1783 · Allison, Robert J
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REFERENCE (MAIN) E163 .A46 1998 AVAILABLE

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REFERENCE (MAIN)	E163 .A46 1998	AVAILABLE

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