The People's War: Original Voices of the American Revolution - Softcover

Rae, Noel

 
9780762790104: The People's War: Original Voices of the American Revolution
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0762790105 ISBN 13: 9780762790104
Verlag: Lyons Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

The outcome was one of history’s great, surprising events, David slaying Goliath. At the beginning of the war, which cast the world’s most powerful nation against a shaky collection of its wildly independent colonies, no such outcome was conceivable. But as the upstarts slowly welded themselves into an effective force, step by step the Americans whipped the mighty British to found the world’s most enduring democracy.

Drawing on thousands of original sources---diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers, pension applications---the author has culled the most colorful and vivid passages and then woven them into a vibrant, eye-witness narrative that takes the reader from the peaceful days before the Stamp Act, through all the major events of the war, and ends with farewell accounts of what happened in later life to the people we have come to know along the way.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Noel Rae graduated with honors in history from Oxford University. He is the author of Witnessing America: The Library of Congress Book of Firsthand Accounts of Life in America 1600-1900, which was Number One on the Washington Post's political bestseller list. Since coming to the United States, he has worked as an editor, teacher, and translator. He lives in Cross River, New York.

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The outcome was one of history's great, surprising events, David slaying Goliath. At the beginning of the war, which cast the world's most powerful nation against a shaky collection of its wildly independent colonies, no such outcome was conceivable. But as the upstarts slowly welded themselves into an effective force, step by step the Americans whipped the mighty British to found the world's most enduring democracy.See the war through the frank and vivid diaries and letters, reflective memoirs, lurid and sensational newspaper accounts, and sober official documents of the American Revolution. Hear the voices of the farmers and merchants, tradesmen and housewives, who joined with the generals and the country's new leaders to wage The People's War.

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Verlag
Lyons Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0762790105
ISBN 13 
9780762790104
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
624
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV, GPSR Europäische Union
info@simonandschuster.nl

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