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Revolution : Mapping the Road to American Independence, 1755-1783 by Paul E. Cohen and Richard H. Brown (2015, Hardcover)

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Revolution by Richard H. Brown, Paul E. Cohen. Title Revolution. Author Richard H. Brown, Paul E. Cohen. Format Hardcover.

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Historians of the Revolutionary War in America have been fortunate in their resources: few wars in history have such a rich literary and cartographic heritage. The high skills of the surveyors, artists, and engravers who delineated the topography and fields of battle allow us to observe the unfolding of events that ultimately defined the United States. When warfare erupted between Britain and her colonists in 1775, maps provided graphic news about military matters. A number of the best examples are reproduced here, including some from the personal collections of King George III, the Duke of Northumberland, and the Marquis de Lafayette. Other maps from institutional and private collections are being published for the first time. In all, sixty significant and beautiful cartographic works from 1755 to 1783 illustrate this intriguing era. Most books about the Revolution begin with Lexington and Concord and progress to the British surrender at Yorktown, but in this rich collection the authors lay the groundwork for the war by also taking into account key events of the antecedent conflict. The seeds of revolution were planted during the French and Indian War (1755-1763), and it was then that a good number of the participants, both British and rebel, cut their teeth. George Washington took his first command during this war, alongside the future British commanding General Thomas Gage. At the Treaty of Paris, the French and Indian War ended, and King George III gained clear title to more territory than had ever been exchanged in any other war before or since. The British military employed its best-trained artists and engineers to map the richest prize in its Empire. They would need those maps for the fratricidal war that would begin twelve years later. Their maps and many others make up the contents of this fascinating and beautiful book.

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Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393060322
ISBN-13
9780393060324
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204219042

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Book Title
Revolution : Mapping the Road to American Independence, 1755-1783
Author
Richard H. Brown, Paul E. Cohen
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps (See Also Travel / Maps & Road Atlases), United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Référence, History
Number of Pages
160 Pages

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12.9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
12in
Item Weight
51.2 Oz

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For both casual readers and experienced researchers, Revolution: Mapping the Road to American Independence is as fine a compilation of cartographic material as any available today., The excellent supporting artwork and Brown and Cohen's elegant text help place these works in perspective in terms of both the development of the war from Fort Duquesne to Yorktown and the rise of modern mapmaking through the persons of unwitting heroes like Col. John Montresor, 'the most able British soldier who served during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution'...Essential for students of the Revolutionary era and a pleasure for cartography buffs., This glorious collection--ravishingly beautiful, exquisitely curated, brilliantly annotated--is one of the most graphic and illuminating treatments of the American Revolution ever brought to press. Here is the road to revolution and the war itself, from the opening of the French and Indian War in 1755 to the surrender at Yorktown in 1781 and the Treaty of Paris two years later. Combining the virtues of an historical atlas, a luscious exhibition, and a detailed but concise history of the wars, it is a GPS to the American Revolution., This beautiful book, with its superbly reproduced images, brings to life the decades leading to the birth of the U.S.A. The authors have given a highly skilled analysis of the background, contents and significance of the images. The readable style and brilliant use of little-known cartographical works has created a book that anyone with an interest in the interplay between maps and history should buy--and read., Revolution is a dazzling achievement that casts new light on the imperial wars of the late eighteenth century. These maps--many of them rare manuscripts, reproduced here for the first time--remind us that the battle for (and against) American independence unfolded in space as well as in time. Here the long road to revolution becomes visible as a hard-fought contest over territory as well as clash of ideals. A feast for the eye, Revolution also invites fresh thinking about the founding of the United States and Britain's American War., Since I can't imagine the library of a map aficionado, historian, armchair warrior or institution functioning without Revolution, I'd say this is THE book on Revolutionary War era maps. Period.
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