Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766

6 best books like Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 (Fred Anderson): The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, Battle Cry of Freedom, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War

The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

Author	Jill Lepore
ISBN	0375702628

Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society

King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres...

Battle Cry of Freedom

Author

James M. McPherson

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.

James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and...

The Radicalism of the American Revolution

Author	Gordon S. Wood
ISBN	0679736883

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed...

The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861

Author	David M. Potter
ISBN	0061319295

“David M. Potter’s magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the coming of the Civil War.” —Civil War History

“The magnum opus of a great American historian.” —Newsweek

Now in a new edition for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, David...

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

Author	Gordon S. Wood
ISBN	0143035282

From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career...

Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War

Author	Richard M. Ketchum
ISBN	0805061231

In the summer of 1777 (twelve months after the Declaration of Independence) the British launched an invasion from Canada under General John Burgoyne. It was the campaign that was supposed to the rebellion, but it resulted in a series of battles that changed America's history and that of the world. Stirring...