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Revolutionary Summer
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $26.95
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $26.95
A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.
The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were...
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Revolutionary Summer
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $13.99
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $13.99
A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.
The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were...
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
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Revolutionary Summer
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $27.00
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $27.00
A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.
The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were...
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Revolutionary Summer
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $35.00
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $35.00
A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.
The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were...
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and in
large print trade paperback.
Revolutionary Summer
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $17.50
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $17.50
A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.
The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were...
Guilford Courthouse 1781
Lord Cornwallis's Ruinous Victory
Written by Angus Konstam
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
By the Spring of 1781, the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) had dragged on for almost six years and the outcome still hung in the balance. When the British commander Lord Cornwallis launched his invasion of North Carolina in early 1781, his objective was to destroy General Nathaniel Greene’s American army. At Guilford... Read more >
Lord Cornwallis's Ruinous Victory
Written by Angus Konstam
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.95
By the Spring of 1781, the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) had dragged on for almost six years and the outcome still hung in the balance. When the British commander Lord Cornwallis launched his invasion of North Carolina in early 1781, his objective was to destroy General Nathaniel Greene’s American army. At Guilford... Read more >
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The Party of Humanity
Written by Peter Gay
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $16.99
THE ENLIGHTENMENT has long been the victim of uninformed or hostile criticisms. Even so respected a source as the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines the Enlightenment as “shallow and pretentious intellectualism, unreasonable contempt for authority and tradition,” thus collecting in one sentence most of our current prejudices. In this provocative book—at... Read more >
Written by Peter Gay
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 8, 2013
Price: $16.99
THE ENLIGHTENMENT has long been the victim of uninformed or hostile criticisms. Even so respected a source as the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines the Enlightenment as “shallow and pretentious intellectualism, unreasonable contempt for authority and tradition,” thus collecting in one sentence most of our current prejudices. In this provocative book—at... Read more >
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The Enlightenment
And Why It Still Matters
Written by Anthony Pagden
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $32.00
One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world.
Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of... Read more >
And Why It Still Matters
Written by Anthony Pagden
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $32.00
One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world.
Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of... Read more >
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The Enlightenment
And Why It Still Matters
Written by Anthony Pagden
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.99
One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world.
Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of... Read more >
And Why It Still Matters
Written by Anthony Pagden
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.99
One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world.
Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
Louisbourg 1758
Wolfe's first siege
Written by Rene Chartrand
Illustrated by Patrice Courcelle
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.95
Osprey's study of James Wolfe's siege of Louisbourg during the French and Indian War (1754-1763). Louisbourg represented a major threat to Anglo-American plans to invade Canada. Bypassing it would leave an immensely powerful enemy base astride the Anglo-American lines of communication – Louisbourg had to be taken. Faced with strong beach... Read more >
Wolfe's first siege
Written by Rene Chartrand
Illustrated by Patrice Courcelle
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.95
Osprey's study of James Wolfe's siege of Louisbourg during the French and Indian War (1754-1763). Louisbourg represented a major threat to Anglo-American plans to invade Canada. Bypassing it would leave an immensely powerful enemy base astride the Anglo-American lines of communication – Louisbourg had to be taken. Faced with strong beach... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Monongahela 1754#55
Washington's defeat, Braddock's disaster
Written by Rene Chartrand
Illustrated by Stephen Walsh
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.95
On 9 July 1755 amid the wilderness of North America, Britain suffered one of the most humiliating defeats in her history. General Braddock’s army, a mixture of British regulars and American militia, was shattered, losing over 900 men from a force of 1,300. Braddock was killed and the remnants of his... Read more >
Washington's defeat, Braddock's disaster
Written by Rene Chartrand
Illustrated by Stephen Walsh
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.95
On 9 July 1755 amid the wilderness of North America, Britain suffered one of the most humiliating defeats in her history. General Braddock’s army, a mixture of British regulars and American militia, was shattered, losing over 900 men from a force of 1,300. Braddock was killed and the remnants of his... Read more >
The Crisis of the European Mind
1680-1715
Written by Paul Hazard
Translated by J. Lewis May
Introduction by Anthony Grafton
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $18.95
Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the... Read more >
1680-1715
Written by Paul Hazard
Translated by J. Lewis May
Introduction by Anthony Grafton
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $18.95
Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Crisis of the European Mind
1680-1715
Written by Paul Hazard
Translated by J. Lewis May
Introduction by Anthony Grafton
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $18.95
Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the... Read more >
1680-1715
Written by Paul Hazard
Translated by J. Lewis May
Introduction by Anthony Grafton
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $18.95
Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Fallen Timbers 1794
The US Army's first victory
Written by John F. Winkler
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Following the defeat at Wabash, in 1792 the Washington administration created a new US Army to replace the one that had been destroyed. The man chosen to lead it was the famous Major-General “Mad” Anthony Wayne. Having trained his new force, Wayne set out in 1793 to subdue the Ohio Indians... Read more >
The US Army's first victory
Written by John F. Winkler
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Following the defeat at Wabash, in 1792 the Washington administration created a new US Army to replace the one that had been destroyed. The man chosen to lead it was the famous Major-General “Mad” Anthony Wayne. Having trained his new force, Wayne set out in 1793 to subdue the Ohio Indians... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Frederick the Great's Allies 1756-63
Written by Stuart Reid
Illustrated by Gerry Embleton
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $13.95
The Seven Years’ War in Germany was characterised by an increasing use of ‘light’ troops in conjunction with regular infantry and cavalry as part of an ongoing evolution in military tactics. This book draws attention to these tactical developments and also provides an analysis of the allied army that fought alongside... Read more >
Written by Stuart Reid
Illustrated by Gerry Embleton
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $13.95
The Seven Years’ War in Germany was characterised by an increasing use of ‘light’ troops in conjunction with regular infantry and cavalry as part of an ongoing evolution in military tactics. This book draws attention to these tactical developments and also provides an analysis of the allied army that fought alongside... Read more >
Quebec 1759
The battle that won Canada
Written by Stuart Reid
Illustrated by Gerry Embleton
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Osprey's study of the decisive battle of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). ‘What a scene!’ wrote Horace Walpole. ‘An army in the night dragging itself up a precipice by stumps of trees to assault a town and attack an enemy strongly entrenched and double in numbers!’ In one short sharp... Read more >
The battle that won Canada
Written by Stuart Reid
Illustrated by Gerry Embleton
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $15.95
Osprey's study of the decisive battle of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). ‘What a scene!’ wrote Horace Walpole. ‘An army in the night dragging itself up a precipice by stumps of trees to assault a town and attack an enemy strongly entrenched and double in numbers!’ In one short sharp... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Fallen Timbers 1794
The US Army's First Victory
Written by John F. Winkler
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $21.95
After the formidable Ohio Indians destroyed the US Army at Wabash in 1791, the Washington administration created a new US Army to defeat them. The famous Revolutionary War commander Major-General “Mad” Anthony Wayne organized and trained the new army, and then led it into the Ohio wilderness in 1794. To defeat... Read more >
The US Army's First Victory
Written by John F. Winkler
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $21.95
After the formidable Ohio Indians destroyed the US Army at Wabash in 1791, the Washington administration created a new US Army to defeat them. The famous Revolutionary War commander Major-General “Mad” Anthony Wayne organized and trained the new army, and then led it into the Ohio wilderness in 1794. To defeat... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Vauban Fortifications of France
Written by Paddy Griffith
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $13.95
Vauban was the foremost military engineer of France during the period of its centralisation and wars of expansion in the 17th and 18th centuries. His influence persisted long after Waterloo, and his name has become synonymous with the science of the construction, defence and attack of bastioned fortresses. Dunkirk, Toulon, Perpignan... Read more >
Written by Paddy Griffith
Illustrated by Peter Dennis
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $13.95
Vauban was the foremost military engineer of France during the period of its centralisation and wars of expansion in the 17th and 18th centuries. His influence persisted long after Waterloo, and his name has become synonymous with the science of the construction, defence and attack of bastioned fortresses. Dunkirk, Toulon, Perpignan... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Polish Armies of the Partitions 1771-94
Written by Vincent Rospond
Illustrated by Raffaele Ruggeri
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $17.95
The tragic national epic of Polish history - its repeated foreign occupations, and its heroic but doomed rebellions - began in these late 18th-century wars. Under Poland's Saxon monarchy, Russia and Prussia constantly meddled in the affairs of the Kingdom, both exerting pressure, and subverting Polish parties to work in their... Read more >
Written by Vincent Rospond
Illustrated by Raffaele Ruggeri
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $17.95
The tragic national epic of Polish history - its repeated foreign occupations, and its heroic but doomed rebellions - began in these late 18th-century wars. Under Poland's Saxon monarchy, Russia and Prussia constantly meddled in the affairs of the Kingdom, both exerting pressure, and subverting Polish parties to work in their... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Polish Armies of the Partitions 1771-94
Written by Vincent Rospond
Illustrated by Raffaele Ruggeri
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $17.95
The tragic national epic of Polish history began in these late 18th-century wars. Under Poland’s Saxon monarchy, Russia and Prussia constantly meddled in the affairs of the Kingdom. In 1768 a civil war broke out between pro-Russian ‘Commonwealth’ Poles and ‘Confederate’ patriots who opposed foreign intervention; Russia intervened directly, and the... Read more >
Written by Vincent Rospond
Illustrated by Raffaele Ruggeri
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $17.95
The tragic national epic of Polish history began in these late 18th-century wars. Under Poland’s Saxon monarchy, Russia and Prussia constantly meddled in the affairs of the Kingdom. In 1768 a civil war broke out between pro-Russian ‘Commonwealth’ Poles and ‘Confederate’ patriots who opposed foreign intervention; Russia intervened directly, and the... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Trenton and Princeton 1776-77
Washington crosses the Delaware
Written by David Bonk
Illustrated by Graham Turner
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $15.95
Following the battle of White River and the fall of Forts Washington and Lee during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), George Washington withdrew his army, crossing the Delaware River to regroup. However, with morale at a critical low and the terms of enlistment of many of his troops set to expire... Read more >
Washington crosses the Delaware
Written by David Bonk
Illustrated by Graham Turner
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $15.95
Following the battle of White River and the fall of Forts Washington and Lee during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), George Washington withdrew his army, crossing the Delaware River to regroup. However, with morale at a critical low and the terms of enlistment of many of his troops set to expire... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Voltaire in Love
Written by Nancy Mitford
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $16.95
The inimitable Nancy Mitford’s account of Voltaire’s fifteen-year relationship with the Marquise du Châtelet—the renowned mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton’s revolutionary new physics to France—is a spirited romp in the company of two extraordinary individuals as well as an erudite and gossipy guide to French high society during the Enlightenment. Mitford’s... Read more >
Written by Nancy Mitford
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $16.95
The inimitable Nancy Mitford’s account of Voltaire’s fifteen-year relationship with the Marquise du Châtelet—the renowned mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton’s revolutionary new physics to France—is a spirited romp in the company of two extraordinary individuals as well as an erudite and gossipy guide to French high society during the Enlightenment. Mitford’s... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Voltaire in Love
Written by Nancy Mitford
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
Format: eBook, 280 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $16.95
The inimitable Nancy Mitford’s account of Voltaire’s fifteen-year relationship with the Marquise du Châtelet—the renowned mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton’s revolutionary new physics to France—is a spirited romp in the company of two extraordinary individuals as well as an erudite and gossipy guide to French high society during the Enlightenment. Mitford’s... Read more >
Written by Nancy Mitford
Introduction by Adam Gopnik
Format: eBook, 280 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $16.95
The inimitable Nancy Mitford’s account of Voltaire’s fifteen-year relationship with the Marquise du Châtelet—the renowned mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton’s revolutionary new physics to France—is a spirited romp in the company of two extraordinary individuals as well as an erudite and gossipy guide to French high society during the Enlightenment. Mitford’s... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Georgian Bawdyhouse
Written by Emily Brand
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $12.95
It is safe to say that selling sex constituted a significant, and visible, part of urban culture in Georgian England. Alongside the rise of the 'polite society' of Jane Austen's novels, the city of London, so described in 1758, had long been portrayed as a centre of vice and debauchery. In... Read more >
Written by Emily Brand
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $12.95
It is safe to say that selling sex constituted a significant, and visible, part of urban culture in Georgian England. Alongside the rise of the 'polite society' of Jane Austen's novels, the city of London, so described in 1758, had long been portrayed as a centre of vice and debauchery. In... Read more >
Redcoat Officer
1740-1815
Written by Stuart Reid
Illustrated by Gerry Embleton
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $14.95
The commissioned officer ranks in the British Army from 1740-1815 were almost entirely composed of the affluent and educated - the sons of the landed gentry, the wealthy, and other professional people. This title looks at the enlistment, training, daily life and combat experiences of the typical British officer in the... Read more >
1740-1815
Written by Stuart Reid
Illustrated by Gerry Embleton
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $14.95
The commissioned officer ranks in the British Army from 1740-1815 were almost entirely composed of the affluent and educated - the sons of the landed gentry, the wealthy, and other professional people. This title looks at the enlistment, training, daily life and combat experiences of the typical British officer in the... Read more >
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trade paperback.
