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Fall Books 2016
Recently Published
The Bank War
Tatiana Romanov
Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and
the Fight for American Finance
Paul Kahan
ISBN: 978-1-59416-234-3
Cloth $28.00
Daughter of the Last Tsar, Diaries and
Letters, 1913–1918
Helen Azar and Nicholas B. A.
Nicholson
ISBN: 978-1-59416-236-7
Cloth $26.00
The Extraordinary Life of
Charles Pomeroy Stone
Soldier, Surveyor, Pasha, Engineer
Blaine Lamb
ISBN: 978-1-59416-232-9
Cloth $29.29
Westholme State Military History Series
Missouri
Pennsylvania
Ohio
A Military History
Charles D. Machon
ISBN: 978-1-59416-215-2
Cloth $35.00
A Military History
William A. Pencak, Christian B.
Keller, Barbara A. Gannon
ISBN: 978-1-59416-251-0
Cloth $35.00
A Military History
Michael Mangus
ISBN: 978-1-59416-214-5
Cloth $35.00
Lorett Treese
A Serpent’s Tale
Discovering America’s Ancient Mound
Builders
The fascinating story of the enigmatic monuments that
inspired American archaeology
When American settlers first crossed the Appalachian
Mountains they were amazed to discover that the wilderness beyond contained ancient ruins—large man-made
mounds and enclosures, and impressive earthen sculptures,
such as a gigantic serpent. Reports trickled back to the
eager ears of President Thomas Jefferson and others.
However, most did not believe these earthworks had anything to do with Native Americans; rather, given the intense
interest in the history of Western Civilization at the time, it
became popular to speculate that the ruins had been built
by refugees from Greece, Rome, Egypt—or even the lost
continent of Atlantis. Since their discovery, the mounds
have attracted both scholars and quacks, from the early
investigations sponsored by the then new Smithsonian
Institution to the visions of the American psychic Edgar
Cayce.
As Lorett Treese explains in her fascinating history A
Serpent’s Tale: Discovering America’s Ancient Mound Builders,
the enigmatic nature of these antiquities fueled both fanciful claims and scientific inquiry. Early on, the earthworks
began to fall to agricultural and urban development.
Realizing that only careful on-site investigation could reveal
the mysteries of the mounds, scholars hastened to document and classify them, giving rise to American archaeology as a discipline. Research made it possible to separate the
Mound Builders into three distinct pre-contact Native
American cultures. More recently, Mound Builder remains
have attracted the practitioners of new disciplines like
archaeoastronomy who suggest they may have functioned
as calendars. There is no doubt that the abandoned monuments that made the Midwest’s Ohio Valley the birthplace
of American archaeology have yet to reveal all the knowledge they contain on the daily lives and world views of persons of North American prehistory.
OCTOBER 304 p., 50 halftones, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-1-59416-263-3
Cloth $28.00
American History
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“Lorett Treese’s A Serpent’s Tale is a
delightfully literate exploration of how
archaeologists and others have struggled
to build our modern understanding of the
origins and achievements of eastern
North America’s mound-building cultures.
You will find no better general introduction to the subject.”
—Bradley Lepper, Ohio History
Connection
LORETT TREESE served as college archivist at Bryn Mawr
College for twenty years, following an earlier career in business, advertising, and public relations. She holds an undergraduate degree from Bryn Mawr and an MA in American
history from Villanova University. She is the author of a
number of books, including Valley Forge: Making and
Remaking a National Symbol, Railroads of Pennsylvania, and
The Storm Gathering: The Penn Family and the American
Revolution.
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Glenn F. Williams
Dunmore’s War
The Last Conflict of America’s Colonial Era
Concluding six months before the first shots at Concord,
the war along the Virginia frontier that had a profound
effect on the course of the coming American Revolution
OCTOBER 480 p., 30 halftones, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-1-59416-166-7
Cloth $35.00
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Praise for Year of the Hangman:
“Mr. Williams’ prose is clear and direct
. . . . He makes vivid an aspect of the
American Revolution all but overlooked in
traditional histories. . . . We must admire
what Mr. Williams has done here.”
—Wall Street Journal
Known to history as “Dunmore’s War,” the 1774 campaign
against a Shawnee-led Indian confederacy in the Ohio
Country marked the final time an American colonial militia
took to the field in His Majesty’s service and under royal
command. Led by John Murray, the fourth Earl of
Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, a force of colonials including George Rogers Clark, Daniel Morgan,
Michael Cresap, Adam Stephen, and Andrew Lewis successfully enforced the western border established by treaties in
parts of present-day West Virginia and Kentucky. The campaign is often neglected in histories, despite its major influence on the conduct of the Revolutionary War that followed. In Dunmore’s War: The Last Conflict of America’s
Colonial Era, award-winning historian Glenn F. Williams
describes the course and importance of this campaign.
Supported by primary source research, the author corrects
much of the folklore concerning the war and frontier fighting in general, demonstrating that the Americans did not
adopt Indian tactics for wilderness fighting as is often supposed, but rather used British methods developed for fighting irregulars in the woods of Europe, while incorporating
certain techniques learned from the Indians and experience
gained from earlier colonial wars.
As an immediate result of Dunmore’s War, the frontier
remained quiet for two years, giving the colonies the critical
time to debate and declare independence before Britain
convinced its Indian allies to resume attacks on American
settlements. Ironically, at the same time Virginia militiamen
were fighting under command of a king’s officer, the colony
was becoming one of the leaders in the move toward
American independence. Although he was hailed as a hero
at the end of the war, Lord Dunmore’s attempt to maintain
royal authority put him in direct opposition to many of the
subordinates who followed him on the frontier, and in 1776
he was driven from Virginia and returned to England.
GLENN F. WILLIAMS is a historian at the U.S. Army Center of
Military History, Fort McNair, Washington, DC. He has
served as the historian of the National Museum of the U.S.
Army Project, the Army Lewis and Clark Bicentennial
Commemoration, and the National Park Service’s American
Battlefield Protection Program. He is the author of a number of books and articles, including the award-winning Year
of the Hangman: George Washington’s Campaign against the
Iroquois. He holds a PhD in history from the University of
Maryland.
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Alexandra Filipowski and
Hugh T. Harrington
The Boy Soldier
Edwin Jemison and the Story Behind the Most
Remarkable Portrait of the Civil War
A haunting photograph and the uplifting search to discover the life and family of a young man lost to war
Since its first publication over fifty years ago, the haunting
image of Private Edwin F. Jemison has attracted widespread
attention from those interested in the Civil War and other
wars. His likeness has been compared to that of the Mona
Lisa, and it rivals Abraham Lincoln as being one of the Civil
War’s most recognized photographs. And yet, his name is
not widely known.
Some believe that there is something about the mouth
that is special, or his hands. Others, perhaps the majority,
find his eyes to be powerful and thought provoking. Some
wonder if they are looking into the future: Eddie’s own
future or the future of all soldiers. Is there a sense of fear or
a resignation to fate? He is, foremost, strikingly boyish.
Despite the great interest in the photograph almost nothing has been known of the young man himself, and misinformation about him has circulated since he was properly
identified twenty years ago. The authors have spent decades
researching the story behind the photograph seeking primary sources for accurate details of Jemison’s life. The
result is The Boy Soldier: Edwin Jemison and the Story
Behind the Most Remarkable Portrait of the Civil War, the
only biography of this young Confederate soldier.
We first encounter Eddie as he attends school in
Milledgeville, Georgia, and then moves to Louisiana in
1860. The following spring, just as Louisiana secedes from
the Union, Eddie enlists in the Confederate army. A little
over a week after enlistment, and with minimal training, he
is sent to Virginia to face the greatest event this nation had
seen.
Over 150 years later the intrigue around his photograph
is matched by the very peculiar accounts of his death, as
well as the controversy of his burial location. The authors
examine both issues to complete the story of the young soldier’s life and death.
OCTOBER 224 p., 10 halftones, 5.5 x 8.5
ISBN: 978-1-59416-264-0
Cloth $26.00
American History
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“In this remarkable blend of archival
research, genealogy, and military history,
Alexandra Filipowski and Hugh T.
Harrington give life and breath to the Civil
War’s most haunting portrait. This is a
gilt-framed gem of a book.”
—Russell S. Bonds, author of War Like
the Thunderbolt: The Battle and Burning
of Atlanta
ALEXANDRA FILIPOWSKI is an independent historical
researcher. She studied history at Trinity College, Dublin,
and Hunter College, City University of New York. Her published works have appeared in America’s Civil War and
Georgia Backroads.
HUGH T. HARRINGTON is an independent researcher and
author whose books include Civil War Milledgeville. His
articles have appeared in Journal of Military History,
Georgia Historical Quarterly, America’s Civil War, Southern
Campaigns of the American Revolution and others.
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Steven Park
The Burning of His
Majesty’s Schooner
Gaspee
An Attack on Crown Rule Before the American
Revolution
Considered one of the first acts of rebellion to British
authority over the American colonies, a fresh account
placing the incident into historical context
NOVEMBER 248 p., 15 halftones, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-1-59416-267-1
Cloth $26.00
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Journal of the
American Revolution Books
Also available
J. L. Bell, The Road to Concord
ISBN: 978-1-59416-249-7
Cloth $26.00
Todd W. Braisted, Grand Forage, 1778
ISBN: 978-1-59416-250-3
Cloth $26.00
Between the Boston Massacre in 1770 and the Boston Tea
Party in 1773—a period historians refer to as “the lull”—a
group of prominent Rhode Islanders rowed out to His
Majesty’s schooner Gaspee, which had run aground six
miles south of Providence while on an anti-smuggling
patrol. After threatening and shooting its commanding officer, the raiders looted the vessel and burned it to the waterline.
Despite colony-wide sympathy for the June 1772 raid,
neither the government in Providence nor authorities in
London could let this pass without a response. As a result, a
Royal Commission of Inquiry headed by Rhode Island governor Joseph Wanton zealously investigated the incident. In
The Burning of His Majesty’s Schooner Gaspee: An Attack on
Crown Rule Before the American Revolution, historian Steven
Park reveals that what started out as a customs battle over
the seizure of a prominent citizen’s rum was soon transformed into the spark that re-ignited Patriot fervor. The
significance of the raid was underscored by a fiery
Thanksgiving Day sermon given by a little-known Baptist
minister in Boston. His inflammatory message was reprinted in several colonies and was one of the most successful
pamphlets of the pre-Independence period. The commission turned out to be essentially a sham and made the
administration in London look weak and ineffective. In the
wake of the Gaspee affair, Committees of Correspondence
soon formed in all but one of the original thirteen colonies,
and later East India Company tea would be defiantly
dumped into Boston Harbor.
STEVEN PARK is the director of Academic Services at the
University of Connecticut’s maritime campus where he
teaches maritime studies. He received his PhD in history
from the University of Connecticut, and his articles have
appeared in a number of publications, including
International Maritime History, American Neptune, Journal
of the American Revolution, and Connecticut History Review.
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Brady J. Crytzer
War in the Peaceable
Kingdom
The Kittanning Raid of 1756
After years of a non-violent policy, Pennsylvanians
organized a surprise attack on a strategic Lenape
village during the French and Indian War
On the morning of September 8, 1756, a band of about
three hundred volunteers of a newly created Pennsylvania
militia led by Lt. Col. John Armstrong crept slowly through
the western Pennsylvania brush. The night before they had
reviewed a plan to quietly surround and attack the Lenape,
or Delaware, Indian village of Kittanning. The
Pennsylvanians had learned that several prominent
Delaware who had led recent attacks on frontier settlements
as well as a number of white prisoners were at the village.
Seeking reprisal, Armstrong’s force successfully assaulted
Kittanning, killing one of the Delaware they sought, but
causing most to flee—along with their prisoners.
Armstrong then ordered the village burned. The raid did
not achieve all of its goals, but it did lead to the Indians
relocating their villages further away from the frontier settlements. However, it was a major victory for those
Pennsylvanians—including Quaker legislators—who
believed the colony must be able to defend itself from outside attack, whether from the French, Indians, or another
colony.
In War in the Peaceable Kingdom: The Kittanning Raid of
1756, historian Brady J. Crytzer follows the two major
threads that intertwined at Kittanning: the French and
Indian War that began in the Pennsylvania frontier, and the
bitter struggle between pacifist Quakers and those Quakers
and others—most notably, Benjamin Franklin—who supported the need to take up arms. It was a transformational
moment for the American colonies. Rather than having a
large, pacifist Pennsylvania in the heart of British North
America, the colony now joined the others in training soldiers for defense. Ironically, it would be Pennsylvania soldiers who, in the early days of the American Revolution,
would be crucial to the survival of George Washington’s
army.
NOVEMBER 256 p., 12 halftones, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-1-59416-269-5
Cloth $28.00
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Praise for Guyasuta and the Fall of Indian
America:
“An entertaining, lively, and engaging
story. This book will serve as an indispensable introduction for this era of
Native American and colonial history.”
—Pennsylvania Magazine of History and
Biography
BRADY J. CRYTZER teaches history at Robert Morris
University. He is the recipient of the Donald S. Kelly and
Donna J. McKee Awards for outstanding scholarship in the
discipline of history. A specialist in imperialism in North
America, he is the author of Fort Pitt: A Frontier History,
Guyasuta and the Fall of Indian America, and Hessians:
Rebels, Mercenaries, and the War for British North America.
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Robert A. Geake
From Slaves to Soldiers
The 1st Rhode Island Regiment in the
American Revolution
Known as the “black” regiment, the story of the first
Continental army unit composed of African American
and Native American enlisted men
NOVEMBER 224 p., 15 halftones, 5.5 x 8.5
ISBN: 978-1-59416-268-8
Cloth $26.00
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“No braver men met the enemy in battle,
but not one was permitted to be a soldier
until he had first been made a freeman.”
—Representative Tristam Burges before
Congress in 1828
In December 1777, the Continental army was encamped at
Valley Forge and faced weeks of cold and hunger, as well as
the prospect of many troops leaving as their terms expired
in the coming months. If the winter were especially cruel,
large numbers of soldiers would face death or contemplate
desertion. Plans were made to enlist more men, but as the
states struggled to fill quotas for enlistment, Rhode Island
general James Mitchell Varnum proposed the historic plan
that a regiment of slaves might be recruited from his own
state, the smallest in the union, but holding the largest population of slaves in New England.
The commander in chief ’s approval of the plan would set
in motion the forming of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment.
The “black regiment,” as it came to be known, was composed of indentured servants, Narragansett Indians, and
former slaves. This was not without controversy. While
some in the Rhode Island Assembly and in other states
railed that enlisting slaves would give the enemy the
impression that not enough white men could be raised to
fight the British, owners of large estates gladly offered their
slaves and servants, both black and white, in lieu of a son or
family member enlisting. The regiment fought with distinction at the battle of Rhode Island, and once joined with the
2nd Rhode Island before the siege of Yorktown in 1781, it
became the first integrated battalion in the nation’s history.
In From Slaves to Soldiers: The 1st Rhode Island Regiment
in the American Revolution, historian Robert A. Geake tells
the important story of the “black regiment” from the causes
that led to its formation, its acts of heroism and misfortune, as well as the legacy left by those men who enlisted to
earn their freedom.
ROBERT A. GEAKE is a Rhode Island historian and the author
of eight books relating to Rhode Island and New England
history. A vice-president of the Cocumscussoc Association
of Smith’s Castle Historic House and Cultural Center, he
also serves on the board of the Warwick Historical Society.
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Carl Lane
Understanding the
National Debt
What Every American Needs to Know
The staggering United States debt has a direct impact
on every American, yet few are aware of where the debt
came from and how it affects their lives
The United States has a debt problem—we owe more than
$18 trillion while our gross domestic product, the value of
all goods and services produced in America, is only $17.5
trillion. To pay down the debt, some recommend austerity,
cutting federal expenditures. Others suggest increasing
taxes, especially on the wealthiest Americans. In
Understanding the National Debt: What Every American
Needs to Know, economic historian Carl Lane urges that the
national debt must be addressed in ways beyond program
cuts or tax increase alternatives, but change can only occur
when more Americans understand what constitutes our
debt and the problems it causes. The gross national debt is
composed of two elements: the public debt and “intragovernment holdings.” The public debt consists of bonds, bills,
and notes purchased by individuals, banks, insurance companies, hedge and retirement funds, foreign governments,
and university endowments. Intragovernment holdings
refers to money that the U.S. Treasury borrows from other
parts of the government, principally Social Security and
Medicare. This accounts for approximately a quarter of the
gross national debt, but that is money that we owe to ourselves, not another entity. The more the government borrows, the less is available for private sector investment, creating a “squeeze” effect that inhibits economic growth. The
most burdensome problem is the interest due each year on
the debt. Every dollar spent on interest is a dollar less for
other purposes. Those elements of the federal budget which
are termed “discretionary” suffer. The mandatory elements
of the budget—Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the
interest on the debt—must be provided for, but defense and
national security, education, energy, infrastructure repair
and development, and other needs wind up with less. By
understanding the national debt we have an opportunity to
address our real debt challenge—its principal and interest.
SEPTEMBER 160 p., 10 halftones, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-1-59416-266-4
Paper $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-59416-265-7
Cloth $55.00
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Praise for A Nation Wholly Free:
“Superbly written. . . . First-rate history
rendered with unusual clarity and verve.”
—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
CARL LANE is professor of history at Felician University in
New Jersey. He received his PhD from the Graduate Center
of the City University of New York. He is author of A
Nation Wholly Free: The Elimination of the National Debt in
the Age of Jackson, and his articles have appeared in William
and Mary Quarterly, Virginia Magazine of History and
Biography, and other publications. His article “The
Elimination of the National Debt in 1835 and the Meaning
of Jacksonian Democracy” in Essays in Economic and
Business History won that journal’s James Soltow Award.
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Carlo Rovelli
Anaximander
A brilliant, award-winning account of the origin of
scientific thought as revealed through the ancient
Greek philosopher Anaximander
Winner of the Prix du Livre Haute Maurienne de l’Astronomie
SEPTEMBER 240 p., 20 halftones, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-1-59416-262-6
Paper $19.95
History of Science
World Rights
“An interesting, informative, and insightful book . . . highly recommended.”
—Choice
By the author of the international and
New York Times bestseller Seven Brief
Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli, a leading theoretical physicist, uses the figure
of Anaximander as the starting point for an examination of
scientific thinking itself: its limits, its strengths, its benefits
to humankind, and its controversial relationship with religion. Anaximander, the sixth-century BCE Greek philosopher, is often called the “first scientist” because he was the
first to suggest that order in the world was due to natural
forces, not supernatural ones. He is the first person known
to understand that the Earth floats in space; to believe that
the sun, the moon, and the stars rotate around it—seven
centuries before Ptolemy; to argue that all animals came
from the sea and evolved; and to posit that universal laws
control all change in the world. Anaximander taught
Pythagoras, who would build on Anaximander’s scientific
theories by applying mathematical laws to natural phenomena.
In Anaximander, Rovelli restores the Greek philosopher
to his place in the history of science by carefully reconstructing his theories from what is known to us and examining them in their historical and philosophical contexts.
Rovelli demonstrates that Anaximander’s discoveries and
theories were decisive influences, putting Western culture
on its path toward a scientific revolution. Developing this
connection, Rovelli redefines science as a continuous
redrawing of our conceptual image of the world. He concludes that scientific thinking—the legacy of
Anaximander—is only reliable when it constantly tests the
limits of our current knowledge.
CARLO ROVELLI received his PhD in physics at the University
of Padua. He has conducted research at Imperial College,
Yale University, the University of Rome, and the University
of Pittsburgh, and currently directs the quantum gravity
group of the Center for Theoretical Physics at Aix-Marseille
University. He is author of Quantum Gravity and What Is
Time? What Is Space?, as well as many scholarly articles. His
most recent book, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, translated
into thirty-four languages, is an international bestseller.
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Becky Libourel Diamond
The Thousand Dollar
Dinner
America’s First Great Cookery Challenge
The acclaimed story of a legendary meal prepared to
settle a gentlemen's wager between New York and
Philadelphia in 1851
In 1851, fifteen wealthy New Yorkers wanted to show a
group of Philadelphia friends just how impressive a meal
could be and took them to Delmonico’s, New York’s finest
restaurant. Not to be outdone, the Philadelphians invited
the New Yorkers to a meal prepared by James W. Parkinson
in their city. In what became known as the “Thousand
Dollar Dinner,” Parkinson successfully rose to the challenge,
creating a seventeen-course extravaganza featuring fresh
salmon, baked rockfish, braised pigeon, turtle steaks, spring
lamb, out-of-season fruits and vegetables, and desserts, all
paired with rare wines and liqueurs. Midway through the
twelve-hour meal, the New Yorkers declared Philadelphia
the winner of their competition, and at several times stood
in ovation to acknowledge the chef ’s mastery. In The
Thousand Dollar Dinner: America’s First Great Cookery
Challenge, research historian Becky Libourel Diamond presents the entire seventeen-course meal, course by course,
explaining each dish and its history. A gastronomic turning
point, Parkinson’s luxurious meal helped launch the era of
grand banquets of the gilded age and established a new
level of American culinary arts to rival those of Europe.
“Sensible and sensitive detailed analyses of each of the
dozens of dishes virtually materialize them for the reader’s
sight, smell, taste, and touch. Although the age of this sort
of sumptuous banqueting has passed, contemporary tasting
menus from acclaimed chefs owe much to the precedents of
feasts such as this one.”—Booklist
“One of the most deliciously over-the-top
dinners ever served in America.”
—Wall Street Journal
“Diamond dishes out more than the
menu of this remarkable meal, deconstructing each course with details of the
class mores, cultural habits, and food
preferences of elite nineteenth-century
Americans.”—Publishers Weekly
Heather Raub, Front Room Images
BECKY LIBOUREL DIAMOND is a journalist and research historian who specializes in reconstructing eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century American recipes. She has written for
the journal Table Matters and is the author of Mrs.
Goodfellow: The Story of America’s First Cooking School.
SEPTEMBER 264 p., 24 halftones, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-1-59416-260-2
Paper $19.95
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Don Glickstein
After Yorktown
The Final Struggle for American Independence
The battles that raged around the world from the British
surrender at Yorktown in 1781 to the signing of the
Paris peace treaty in 1783
SEPTEMBER 464 p., 53 halftones, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-1-59416-261-9
Paper $25.00
Military History
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“A highly readable book. . . . The author
is to be particularly commended for
painting a grand canvas in which he portrays the war both in the various theaters
at home but also globally in India, the
Caribbean, and Europe.”
—Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy,
author of The Men Who Lost America
Although most people think the American Revolution
ended with the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, on
October 19, 1781, it did not. The war continued around the
world, from the Arctic to Arkansas, from India and Ceylon
to Schenectady and South America. Spain, which France
had lured into the war, insisted there would be no peace
without seizing British-held Gibraltar. Loyalists and Native
Americans continued joint operations against land-hungry
settlers from New York to the Mississippi Valley. African
American slaves sought freedom with the British. In April
1782, Britain seized the initiative again with a decisive naval
victory in the Caribbean against the Comte de Grasse, the
French hero of Yorktown.
In After Yorktown: The Final Struggle for American
Independence, Don Glickstein tells the engrossing story of
this uncertain and violent time, from the remarkable
American and French success in Virginia to the conclusion
of the fighting—in India—and then to the last British soldiers leaving New York City more than two years after
Yorktown. Based on an extraordinary range of primary
sources, the story encompasses a fascinating cast of characters: a French captain who destroyed a British trading post
but left supplies for Indians to help them through a harsh
winter, an American Loyalist who released a captured
Spanish woman in hopes that his act of kindness would
result in a prisoner exchange, a Native American leader
caught “between two hells” of a fickle ally and a greedy
enemy, and the only general to surrender to both George
Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte.
DON GLICKSTEIN, an award-winning journalist, has written
for the Delaware State News, Buffalo Courier-Express, New
Bedford Standard-Times, and Seattle Post-Intelligencer. His
history writing has appeared in the Journal of the American
Revolution, Washington Magazine, and historylink.org.
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Howard T. Weir, III
A Paradise of Blood
The Creek War of 1813–14
The war for an idyllic wilderness that brought Andrew
Jackson to national prominence, transformed the South,
and changed America forever
In 1811, a portion of the Creek Indians who inhabited a vast
area across the American Southeast interpreted a tremor as
an omen that they had to return to their traditional way of
life. What was an internal Indian dispute soon became
engulfed in the War of 1812. At immediate stake was
whether the Creeks and their British and Spanish allies or
the young United States would control millions of acres of
highly fertile land. The conflict’s larger issue was whether
the Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw would be
able to remain in their ancestral homes.
Beginning with conquistador Ferdinand DeSoto’s fateful
encounter with Indians of the southeast in the 1500s, A
Paradise of Blood: The Creek War of 1813–14 by Howard T.
Weir, III, narrates the complete story of the cultural clash
for this landscape of stunning beauty. Using contemporary
letters, military reports, and other primary sources, the
author places the Creek War in the context of Tecumseh’s
fight for Native American independence and the ongoing
war between the United States and European powers for
control of North America. The Creek War was marked by
savagery, such as the murder of hundreds of settlers at Fort
Mims, Alabama, and fierce battles, including Horseshoe
Bend, that marked the end to the war. Many notable personalities fought during the conflict, including Andrew
Jackson, Sam Houston, William Weatherford, and Davy
Crockett. When the war was over, more than twenty million
acres had been added to the United States, thousands of
Indians were dead or homeless, and Jackson was on his way
to the presidency. The war eliminated the last effective
Native American resistance to westward expansion east of
the Mississippi, and by giving the United States land that
was ideal for large-scale cotton planting, it laid the foundation for the Civil War a generation later. A Paradise of Blood
is a comprehensive and masterful history of one of
America’s most important and influential early wars.
SEPTEMBER 568 p., 24 halftones, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-1-59416-270-1
Paper $26.00
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“Weir has written the definitive account
of the conflict.”—Historians Manifesto
“A model operational analysis of irregular
warfare.”—Publishers Weekly
HOWARD T. WEIR, III has a BA in history from the University
of California at Berkeley, an MFA from Hollins University,
and a JD from the University of Alabama School of Law. He
studied creative writing under James Dickey, George
Garrett, and Lillian Hellman.
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Michael J. Decker
The Byzantine Art of
War
SEPTEMBER 280 p., 48 halftones, 6 x 9
ISBN: 978-1-59416-271-8
Paper $22.50
Military History
World Rights
“A valuable introduction to Byzantine
warfare.”—Medieval Review
“Recommended to students and history
buffs.”—War in History
Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta National
History Society Award for Best
Subsequent Book
Throughout its history the Byzantine empire faced a multitude of challenges from foreign invaders—the Hunnic
hordes of Attila, the Arab armies of Islam, and the western
Crusaders—all seeking to plunder its wealth and to occupy
its lands. In order to survive the Byzantines relied on their
army that was for centuries the only standing, professional
force in Europe. Leadership provided another key to survival; Byzantine society produced a number of capable
strategic thinkers and tacticians—and several brilliant ones,
such as Belisarius. These officers maintained a level of professionalism and organization inherited and adapted from
Roman models. The innovations of the Byzantine military
reforms of the sixth century included the use of steppe
nomad equipment and tactics, the most important of
which was the refinement of the Roman mounted archer.
The Arab conquests led to a sharp decline in the number
and quality of imperial forces; therefore, by the eighth and
ninth centuries, Byzantine commanders mastered the art of
the small war, waging guerrilla campaigns, raids, and flying
column attacks that injured the enemy but avoided the
decisive confrontation the empire was no longer capable of
winning. This work further sketches the key campaigns,
battles, and sieges that illustrate Byzantine military doctrine, vital changes from one era to another, the composition of forces and the major victories and defeats that
defined the territory and material well-being of its citizens.
Through a summary of their strategies, tactics, and innovations in the tools of war, The Byzantine Art of War closes
with an analysis of the contributions of this remarkable
empire to world military history.
MICHAEL J. DECKER is Maroulis Professor of Byzantine
History at the University of South Florida. He has worked
extensively on the archaeology and history of the Byzantine
state in the Middle East and North Africa. His publications
include Tilling the Hateful Earth (Oxford, 2010), an exploration of economy and society in the Levant in the centuries prior to the Islamic conquests.
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