Alan Taylor
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American Revolutions
A Continental History, 1750-1804
- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 31,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35476-8
EAN 9780393354768
Often understood as a high-minded, orderly event, the American Revolution grows in this masterful history like a ground fire overspreading Britain's mainland colonies, fuelled by local conditions and resistant to control. Emerging from the rivalries of European empires and their allies, the revolution pivoted on western expansion as well as resistance to new British taxes. ...
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American Revolutions
A Continental History 1750-1804
- Norton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 704 páginas
PVP: 44,25 €
ISBN 978-0-393-08281-4
EAN 9780393082814
The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding.Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and ...
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- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34973-3
EAN 9780393349733
Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom's swift-winged angels." In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans for declaring war on the empire. Over many nights, hundreds of slaves paddled out to the warships seeking protection for their families ...
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- Random House USA, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 19,80 €
ISBN 978-0-679-77673-4
EAN 9780679776734
In this deeply researched and clearly written book, the Pulitzer Prize winning historian Alan Taylor tells the riveting story of a war that redefined North America. During the early nineteenth century, Britons and Americans renewed their struggle over the legacy of the American Revolution. Soldiers, immigrants, settlers, and Indians fought in a northern borderland to ...
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American Colonies
The Settlement of North America to 1800
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 21,95 €
ISBN 978-0-14-200210-0
EAN 9780142002100
AMERICAN COLONIES starts with the earliest years of human colonization of the American continent and environs with the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait 15,000 years ago. It ends in around 1800 when the rough outline of the contemporary North America could be perceived.Dropping the usual Anglocentric description of North America's fate, Taylor brilliantly conveys ...
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