The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199324220 ISBN 13: 9780199324224

Verlag: OUP USA, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook is a guide to the major sites of the Revolutionary War as well as to the most authoritative books on the war written during the last fifty years. Composed of nearly 150 entries on sites including battle fields and encampments; forts; museums; and meeting houses and gathering places such as Faneuil Hall in Boston and Keeler Tavern in Ridgefield, Connecticut, this guidebook is an essential reference for anyone interested in Revolutionary War history.

Entries include essays from the most authoritative and accessible books on the American Revolution, including such classic works as Barbara Tuchman's The First Salute and David Hackett Fischer's Washington's Crossing, as well as a number of illuminating primary documents by Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and others. The essays provide context and overview, giving a sense of the major figures and events as well as the course of the Revolution.

Frances Kennedy, general editor, provides connecting narrative throughout the text, which moves chronologically from the pre-Revolutionary years up through 1787. The resulting book is encyclopedic in scope yet accessible to the general reader. Accompanied by historical maps, it offers a comprehensive picture of how the Revolutionary War unfolded on American soil, and also points readers to the best writing on the subject in the last fifty years.

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Frances Kennedy is a conservationist and historian. She is the author of The Civil War Battlefield Guide and American Indian Places: A Historical Guidebook.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: OUP USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0199324220
• ISBN 13: 9780199324224
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
• Herausgeber: Kennedy Frances H.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Ufficio Anagrafiche Messaggerie; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; 20090; Italien