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42) The unknown American Revolution: the unruly birth of democracy and the struggle to create America
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Pub. Date
2006.
Description
The Unknown American Revolution plunges us into the swirl of ideology, grievance, outrage, and hope that animated the Revolutionary decades. It tells of the efforts of a wide variety of men and women who stepped forward amidst a discouraging, debilitating, but ultimately successful war to inscribe on the clean slate their ideas for the kind of America they hoped would emerge from the blood-soaked eight-year conflict. Millennialist preachers and enslaved...
44) Countdown to independence: a revolution of ideas in England and her American colonies : 1760-1776
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Examines the people and events both in the American colonies and in Great Britain between 1760 and 1776 that led to the American Revolution.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The story of the Boston Massacre--when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death--is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning, many accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political. Professor Serena Zabin draws on original sources and lively stories to follow British troops as they are dispatched from Ireland to Boston in 1768...
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