Revolutionary Summer

2014-06-03 History

Author : Joseph J. Ellis
Release : 2014-06-03
Genre : History
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Download or read book Revolutionary Summer written by Joseph J. Ellis. This book was released on 2014-06-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian “Accessible and electric.... [Ellis] crisply covers the decisive and improbable events of 1776.... [A] dramatic slice of history.” —USA Today 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 dispatching the largest armada ever to cross the Atlantic to crush the rebellion in the cradle. The Continental Congress and the Continental Army were forced to make decisions on the run, improvising as history congealed around them. In a brilliant and seamless narrative, Ellis meticulously examines the most influential figures in this propitious moment, including George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Britain’s Admiral Lord Richard and General William Howe. He weaves together the political and military experiences as two sides of a single story, and shows how events on one front influenced outcomes on the other.

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2022-05-25T22:59:00Z History

Author : Everest Media,
Release : 2022-05-25T22:59:00Z
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Download or read book Summary of Joseph J. Ellis's Revolutionary Summer written by Everest Media,. This book was released on 2022-05-25T22:59:00Z. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The American Revolution had begun by the spring of 1776, when British and American troops had been fighting each other for a full year. The Continental Congress maintained its loyalty to the British Crown, and George III did not know about the war. #2 The American Revolution was caused by the American colonies’ response to Parliament’s assumption of sovereignty. The British government should have exploited the gap between the military and political sides of the American Revolution by proposing some reconfiguration of the British Empire that gave the American colonies some control over their domestic affairs in return for a renewed expression of American loyalty to the king. #3 In 1774, the British government decided to impose martial law on Massachusetts after a tea party in Boston Harbor called the Tea Party. The British resoundingly imperial view of the American colonies was that Parliament had sovereignty over them, while the American view was that consent was the ultimate priority and sovereignty resided in multiple locations. #4 John Dickinson was the epitome of the moderate mentality within the Continental Congress. He believed that there must be some middle ground that preserved colonial rights but avoided American independence, which he regarded as a dangerous course.

Revolutionary Summer

2024 United States

Author : Joseph J. Ellis
Release : 2024
Genre : United States
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Download or read book Revolutionary Summer written by Joseph J. Ellis. This book was released on 2024. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 dispatching the largest armada ever to cross the Atlantic to crush the rebellion in the cradle. The Continental Congress and the Continental Army were forced to make decisions on the run, improvising as history congealed around them. In a brilliant and seamless narrative, Ellis meticulously examines the most influential figures in this propitious moment, including George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Britain's Admiral Lord Richard and General William Howe. He weaves together the political and military experiences as two sides of a single story, and shows how events on one front influenced outcomes on the other.

Stop the Revolution

2011-07-20 History

Author : Thomas J. McGuire
Release : 2011-07-20
Genre : History
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Download or read book Stop the Revolution written by Thomas J. McGuire. This book was released on 2011-07-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story surrounding the British effort to bring the American Revolution to a peaceful end.

The Expanding Blaze

2019-11-26 History

Author : Jonathan Israel
Release : 2019-11-26
Genre : History
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Download or read book The Expanding Blaze written by Jonathan Israel. This book was released on 2019-11-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the Americas, the Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Jonathan Israel, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment, shows how the radical ideas of American founders such as Paine, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Monroe set the pattern for democratic revolutions, movements, and constitutions in France, Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Greece, Canada, Haiti, Brazil, and Spanish America. The Expanding Blaze reminds us that the American Revolution was an astonishingly radical event--and that it didn't end with the transformation and independence of America. Rather, the revolution continued to reverberate in Europe and the Americas for the next three-quarters of a century. This comprehensive history of the revolution's international influence traces how American efforts to implement Radical Enlightenment ideas--including the destruction of the old regime and the promotion of democratic republicanism, self-government, and liberty--helped drive revolutions abroad, as foreign leaders explicitly followed the American example and espoused American democratic values. The first major new intellectual history of the age of democratic revolution in decades, The Expanding Blaze returns the American Revolution to its global context."--

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