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Author : Bill Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book British Volunteers for Liberty written by Bill Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book British Volunteers for Liberty written by Bill Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Baxell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134345763
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War written by Richard Baxell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 almost 2,500 men and women left Britain to fight for the Spanish Republic. This book examines the role, experiences and contribution of the volunteers who fought in the British Battalion of the 15 International Brigadesasking: * Who were these volunteers? * Where did they come from? * Why did they go to Spain? * How much did they actually help the Spanish Republic? In contrast to recent revisionist interpretations, this work stresses the crucial importance of the war experience itself, rather than political ideology, in the understanding of the volunteers' role and experiences within the Spanish war. This book will be of essential interest to historians and those interested in the Spanish Civil War.
Author : Cecil D. Eby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book Between the Bullet and the Lie written by Cecil D. Eby and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James K. Hopkins
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804731270
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Download or read book Into the Heart of the Fire written by James K. Hopkins and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the experience of the British volunteers in the Spanish Civil War and places them in a broad intellectual, political, social, and cultural framework.
Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811214667
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dark Back of Time written by Javier Marías and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marias marvels as a world that seemed nearly asleep is set into fretful motion by a world that never "existed."".
Author : Margaret Whitman Blair
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426305915
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book Liberty Or Death written by Margaret Whitman Blair and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberty or Death is the little-known story of the American Revolution told from the perspectives of the African-American slaves who fought on the side of the British Royal Army in exchange for a promise of freedom. Motivated by the 1775 proclamation by Virginia's Royal Governor that any slaves who took up arms on his behalf would be granted their freedom, these men fought bravely for a losing cause. Many of the volunteers succumbed to battle wounds or smallpox, which ran rampant on the British ships on which they were quartered. After the successful Revolution, they emigrated to Canada and, ultimately to West Africa. Liberty or Death is the inspiring story of the forgotten freedom fighters of America's Revolutionary War.
Author : Denver Brunsman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813933528
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Evil Necessity written by Denver Brunsman and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fundamental component of Britain’s early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat—it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century. In The Evil Necessity, Denver Brunsman describes in vivid detail the experience of impressment for Atlantic seafarers and their families. Brunsman reveals how forced service robbed approximately 250,000 mariners of their livelihoods, and, not infrequently, their lives, while also devastating Atlantic seaport communities and the loved ones who were left behind. Press gangs, consisting of a navy officer backed by sailors and occasionally local toughs, often used violence or the threat of violence to supply the skilled manpower necessary to establish and maintain British naval supremacy. Moreover, impressments helped to unite Britain and its Atlantic coastal territories in a common system of maritime defense unmatched by any other European empire. Drawing on ships’ logs, merchants’ papers, personal letters and diaries, as well as engravings, political texts, and sea ballads, Brunsman shows how ultimately the controversy over impressment contributed to the American Revolution and served as a leading cause of the War of 1812. Early American HistoriesWinner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies
Author : Don N. Hagist
Publisher : Westholme Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781594162046
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book British Soldiers, American War written by Don N. Hagist and published by Westholme Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine Rare and Fascinating First-Person Profiles of Soldiers Who Fought for the British Crown Much has been written about the colonists who took up arms during the American Revolution and the army they created. Far less literature, however, has been devoted to their adversaries. The professional soldiers that composed the British army are seldom considered on a personal level, instead being either overlooked or inaccurately characterized as conscripts and criminals. Most of the British Redcoats sent to America in defense of their government's policies were career soldiers who enlisted voluntarily in their late teens or early twenties. They came from all walks of British life, including those with nowhere else to turn, those aspiring to improve their social standing, and all others in between. Statistics show that most were simply hardworking men with various amounts of education who had chosen the military in preference to other occupations. Very few of these soldiers left writings from which we can learn their private motives and experiences. British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution is the first collection of personal narratives by British common soldiers ever assembled and published. Author Don N. Hagist has located first-hand accounts of nine soldiers who served in America in the 1770s and 1780s. In their own words we learn of the diverse population--among them a former weaver, a boy who quarelled with his family, and a man with wanderlust--who joined the army and served tirelessly and dutifully, sometimes faithfully and sometimes irresolutely, in the uniform of their nation. To accompany each narrative, the author provides a contextualizing essay based on archival research giving background on the soldier and his military service. Taken as a whole these true stories reveal much about the individuals who composed what was, at the time, the most formidable fighting force in the world.
Author : Micah Alpaugh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009027573
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book Friends of Freedom written by Micah Alpaugh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Sons of Liberty to British reformers, Irish patriots, French Jacobins, Haitian revolutionaries and American Democrats, the greatest social movements of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions grew as part of a common, interrelated pattern. In this new transnational history, Micah Alpaugh demonstrates the connections between the most prominent causes of the era, as they drew upon each other's models to seek unprecedented changes in government. As Friends of Freedom, activists shared ideas and strategies internationally, creating a chain of broad-based campaigns that mobilized the American Revolution, British Parliamentary Reform, Irish nationalism, movements for religious freedom, abolitionism, the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and American party politics. Rather than a series of distinct national histories, Alpaugh shows how these movements jointly responded to the Atlantic trends of their era to create a new way to alter or overthrow governments: mobilizing massive social movements.
