Apostles of revolution: Jefferson, Paine, Monroe and the struggle against the old order in America and Europe

From acclaimed historian John Ferling, the story of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and James Monroe's involvement

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The first account of Britain’s convoys during the Napoleonic Wars—showing how the protection of trade played a decisive

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The enormous popularity of his pamphlet Common Sense made Thomas Paine one of the best-known patriots during the early y

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Old World, New World: America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson grew out of workshops in Salzburg and Charlottesville s

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The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries witnessed the transformation of the old rural order to the modern class society.

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The first account of Britain’s convoys during the Napoleonic Wars—showing how the protection of trade played a decisive

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The image of the anarchist assassin haunted the corridors of power and the popular imagination in the late nineteenth ce

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For the Western world as a whole, the period from about 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlin

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Thomas Paine was one of the most remarkable political writers of the modern world and the greatest radical of a radical

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