A Short History of the American Revolution
The first one-volume survey of the American Revolution that is both objective and comprehensive, this outstanding narrative history traces the growth of a conflict that inexorably set the American colonies on the road to independence. Offering a spirited chronicle of the war itself -- the campaigns and strategies, the leaders on both sides, the problems of fielding and sustaining an army, and of maintaining morale -- Stokesbury also brings the reader to the Peace of Paris in 1783 and into the miltarily exhausted, financially ruined yet victorious United States as it emerged to create a workable national system.
| Autor: | Stokesbury, James L. |
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| ISBN: | 9780688123048 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Harper Collins (US) |
| Veröffentlicht: | 27.01.1993 |
| Schlagworte: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs HISTORY: AMERICAN HISTORY: General HISTORY: MILITARY HISTORY: Military / World War II HISTORY: United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) HISTORY: United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) HISTORY: United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) |
James L. Stokesbury is the author of A Short History of World War I, A Short History of World War II, A Short History of the Korean War, and A Short History of the American Revolution. Before his death in 1995 he was a professor of history at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada.