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Examines and contrasts the early colonies in Massachusetts and Virginia to illuminate differences in culture, habits, and traditions.

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A new interpretation about the coming of the American Revolution, Breen focuses on how the American colonists accumulated consumer goods from England.

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The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to ove...

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Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, "e;Myne Owne Ground"e; has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women...

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"e;Important and lucidly written...The American Revolution involved not simply the wisdom of a few great men but the passions, fears, and religiosity of ordinary people."e;-Gordon S. WoodIn this boldly innovative work, T. H. Breen spotligh...

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Important and lucidly writtenThe American Revolution involved not simply the wisdom of a few great men but the passions, fears, and religiosity of ordinary people. Gordon S. Wood In this boldly innovative work, T. H. Breen spotlights a crucial mis...

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A prize-winning historian provides the missing piece in the story of Americas founding, introducing us to the ordinary men and women who turned a faltering rebellion against colonial rule into an unexpectedly potent and enduring revolution. Over e...

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The great Tidewater planters of mid-eighteenth-century Virginia were fathers of the American Revolution. Perhaps first and foremost, they were also anxious tobacco farmers, harried by a demanding planting cycle, trans-Atlantic shipping risks, and ...

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The landmark Nursing Home Care Reform Act of 1987 mandated basic standards of care to ensure the physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being of residents. Yet little has changed since it was enacted. High-quality facilities continue to provide g...

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How we make history--and what we then make of it--is engagingly dramatized in T. H. Breen's portrait of a 350-year-old American community faced with the costs of its "progress." In the particulars of one town's struggle to check developm...

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The great Tidewater planters of mid-eighteenth-century Virginia were fathers of the American Revolution. Perhaps first and foremost, they were also anxious tobacco farmers, harried by a demanding planting cycle, trans-Atlantic shipping risks, and ...

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An exciting introduction to a George Washington we rarely see, a president who strategically traveled to all thirteen states and transformed American political culture. "Breen's clearly written account of these sojourns give readers a fresh u...

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This is George Washington in the surprising role of political strategist.T.H. Breen introduces us to a George Washington we rarely meet. During his first term as president, he decided that the only way to fulfill the Revolution was to take the new...

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