The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire

The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire 1752585119, 2012047724

The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent mi

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Founding Leadership : Lessons on Business and Personal Leadership from the Men Who Brought You the American Revolution 9781642792058

What would Washington (or Jefferson or Hamilton) do? Practical leadership lessons from the eighteenth century that you c

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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio 9781501759338

Empire of the Air tells the story of three American visionaries—Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff

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Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 9780307425393

In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports

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Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America 0806144629, 9780806144627

Prior to the American Revolution, the Ohio River Valley was a cauldron of competing interests: Indian, colonial, and imp

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A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution 9781501723865

First published in 1988, Marc Egnal's now classic revisionist history of the origins of the American Revolution, fo

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Noble Volunteers: The British Soldiers Who Fought the American Revolution 1594163499, 9781594163494

Redcoats. For Americans, the word brings to mind the occupying army that attempted to crush the Revolutionary War. There

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Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution 1819569379

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Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution 9781501736612

McCurdy shows that the Quartering Act had significant ramifications, codified in the Third Amendment, for contemporary i

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The Persistence of Empire : British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution [1 ed.] 9781469603490, 9780807825297

The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britain's most humiliating defea

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