The dramatic story of George Washington's first crisis of the fledgling republic. In the war’s waning days, the American Revolution neared collapsed when Wash

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Winner of the 2019 Bolton-Johnson Prize from the Conference on Latin American History This is a book about the links between politics and literacy, and about ho

This book brings together an international team of scholars from Britain, France and North America to examine the causes of the breakdown of the absolute monarc

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