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Summary: Discusses the transplanting of British folkways to America during four waves of immigration between 1629 and 1775.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 FISFischer, David Hackett
Summary: "A brilliant synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 FISFischer, David Hackett
Summary: "The narrative is constructed around two thematic lines. One story centers on the American patriot Paul Revere; the other, on British General Thomas Gage."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3311 FISFischer, David Hackett
Summary: Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia.Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die. Fischer's richly textured...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.332 FISFischer, David Hackett
Summary: Traces the story of Quebec's founder while explaining his influential perspectives about peaceful colonialism, in a profile that also evaluates his contributions as a soldier, mariner, and cultural diplomat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008