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Faces of revolution : personalities and themes in the struggle for American independence / Bernard Bailyn.
LIBRA - Special E208 .B2 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bailyn, Bernard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- United States.
- History.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Biography.
- United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 296 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1992.
- Summary:
- A portrait of the background, origins, character, and legacy of the American Revolution.
- Contents:
- I: PERSONALITIES:
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Hutchinson
- Thomas Paine
- The Index and commentaries of Harbottle Dorr
- RELIGION AND REVOLUTION:
- THREE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: Andrew Eliot
- Jonathan Mayhew
- Stephen Johnson
- II: THEMES:
- 1776 in Britain and America: a year of challenge, a world transformed
- Political experience and radical ideas in Eighteenth-Century America
- The central themes of the American Revolution
- The ideological fulfillment of the American Revolution.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1990.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0679736239
- 9780679736233
- OCLC:
- 25747591
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Klappentext
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