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Great Britain Great Britain Colonies America History 18th century Great Britain Emigration and immigration History 18th century Great Britain History 18th century Great Britain History, Naval 18th century North America United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Causes United States Politics and government 1775-1783 United States Politics and government To 1775Summary: "In the spring of 1789, a ship left port in London bound for the Botany Bay penal colony in Australia. The ship carried precious cargo - women, sent to keep the desperate male colonists from engaging in what their governor called 'gross irregularities.' But these women were hardly quiet homemakers - they were a hardy raucous lot rounded up from London's notorious Newgate prison and other jails...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VOYOstler, Catherine
Summary: Elizabeth Chudleigh lived a privileged life in 18th century England where she was part of the Hanoverian court as maid of honor to the Princess of Wales. Known for her style and wit, Elizabeth delighted and scandalized the press and public. She married twice: in secret to a young heir to an earldom and later to a duke. Eventually charged with bigamy, her trial was Georgian England's greatest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRISTOL, ELIZABETH CHUDLEIGH OSTMoore, Peter
Summary: "The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." In a statement as pithy--and contested--as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 194.1 MOOMoore, Peter
Summary: "A history of the legendary ship Endeavour"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.92 MOOBurrows, Edwin G.
Summary: Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown, and just over 6,800 died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons--more than twice the number to die on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.371 BURSummary: Through narration and dramatic reconstruction, this three-part television program explores the unique relationship that Britons enjoyed with their homes during the Georgian era. Characters from all walks of life, from gentlewomen in their stately mansions to servants, are brought to life through their artifacts, letters, and diaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Limited 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ATKing, Charles
Summary: "The epic, dramatic story of the 18th century men and women behind the making of Handel's Messiah, one of the world's most beloved works of classical music, from a New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. George Frideric Handel's Messiah is arguably the greatest piece of participatory art ever created. Adored by millions, it is performed each year by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.07 CLAShevelow, Kathryn
Summary: In eighteenth-century England--where cockfighting and bullbaiting drew large crowds, and the abuse of animals was routine--the idea of animal protection was dismissed as laughably radical. But as pets became more common, human attitudes toward animals evolved. An unconventional duchess defended their intellect in her writings; a gentleman scientist believed that animals should be treated with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.30941 SHEIreland, Bernard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.00941 IREJasanoff, Maya
Summary: At the end of the American Revolution, 60,000 Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 JASJasanoff, Maya
Summary: At the end of the American Revolution, 60,000 Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 JASSugden, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.27 SUGSelby, John Millin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941 SELHough, Richard Alexander
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Publisher / Publication Date: E. P. Dutton 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 HOUPope, Dudley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359 POPLambdin, Dewey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1999
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LambdStockwin, Julian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STOFaragher, John Mack
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W Norton & Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.601 FAREllis, Joseph J.
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis offers an epic account of the origins and clashing ideologies of America's revolutionary era, recovering a war more brutal, and more disorienting, than any in our history, save perhaps the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3 ELLWidder, Keith R.
Summary: Book Jacket: On June 2, 1763, the Ojibwe captured Michigan's Fort Michilimackinac from the British. Ojibwe warriors from villages on Mackinac Island and along the Cheboygan River had surprised the unsuspecting garrison while playing a game of baggatiway. On the heels of the capture, Odawa from nearby L'Arbre Croche arrived to rescue British prisoners, setting into motion a complicated series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2013
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.27 WIDEllis, Joseph J.
Summary: "A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it. George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the "American Revolution": former colonists still regarded themselves as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 ELLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.3 ELLDollarhide, William.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Quest Genealogical Service 1997