Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution

Submitted by FHMaster on Sun, 01/15/2017 - 19:29

""What do we mean by the Revolution?" John Adams asked Thomas Jefferson in 1815. "The war? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an effect and consequence of it." As the distinguished historian Thomas P. Slaughter shows in this landmark book, the long process of revolution reached back more than a century before 1776, and it touched on virtually every aspect of the colonies' laws, commerce, social structures, religious sentiments, family ties, and political interests.

The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, And The Triumph Of Anglo-America

Submitted by FHMaster on Mon, 01/09/2017 - 19:17

"The question at the heart of The Cousins’ Wars is this: How did Anglo-America evolve over a mere three hundred years from a small Tudor kingdom into a global community with such a hegemonic grip on the world today, while no other European power—Spain, France, Germany, or Russia—did? The answer to this, according to Phillips, lies in a close examination of three internecine English-speaking civil wars—the English Civil War, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War.

God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution

Submitted by FHMaster on Fri, 01/06/2017 - 20:28

"Before the Revolutionary War, America was a nation divided by different faiths. But when the war for independence sparked in 1776, colonists united under the banner of religious freedom. Evangelical frontiersmen and Deist intellectuals set aside their differences to defend a belief they shared, the right to worship freely.

A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence

Submitted by FHMaster on Fri, 01/06/2017 - 20:16

"The first major effort to tell the history of the American Revolution from the often overlooked standpoints of its everyday participants, A People’s History of the American Revolution is a highly accessible narrative of the wartime experience that brings in the stories of previously marginalized voices: the common people, slave