Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Miracle of American Independence: Twenty Ways Things Could Have Turned out Differently
Jonathan R Dull
€ 18.99
€ 18.70
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Miracle of American Independence: Twenty Ways Things Could Have Turned out Differently
Hardback. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBWF; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 259.
Although American independence was no miracle, the timing of the country’s independence and its huge scope, both political and territorial, do seem miraculous. In The Miracle of American Independence Jonathan R. Dull reconstructs significant events before, during, and after the Revolutionary War that had dramatic consequences for the future as the colonies sought independence from Great Britain. Without these surprising and unexpected results, Dull maintains, the country would have turned out quite differently. The Miracle of American Independence reimagines how the British might have averted or overcome American independence, and how the fledgling country itself could have lost its independence. Drawing ... Read more
Although American independence was no miracle, the timing of the country’s independence and its huge scope, both political and territorial, do seem miraculous. In The Miracle of American Independence Jonathan R. Dull reconstructs significant events before, during, and after the Revolutionary War that had dramatic consequences for the future as the colonies sought independence from Great Britain. Without these surprising and unexpected results, Dull maintains, the country would have turned out quite differently. The Miracle of American Independence reimagines how the British might have averted or overcome American independence, and how the fledgling country itself could have lost its independence. Drawing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781612347677
SKU
V9781612347677
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Jonathan R Dull
Jonathan R. Dull served as the senior associate editor of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin series until 2008 and is the author of numerous books, including Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution (Nebraska, 2010), The French Navy and the Seven Years’ War (Nebraska, 2005), and The Age of the Ship of the Line (Nebraska, 2009).
Reviews for Miracle of American Independence: Twenty Ways Things Could Have Turned out Differently
“A fabulous book by one of the leading scholars of the period. This book will make you think in an entirely new way about the path to American independence and will make you realize just how many different paths the war could have taken.”—Sam Willis, author of In the Hour of Victory: The Royal Navy at War in the Age ... Read more