Pulitzer Prize Finalist in HistoryWinner of the Journal of the American Revolution 2016 Book of the Year AwardThe remarkable untold story of how the American Revolution's success depended on substanti
"In the early eighteenth century, at the peak of the Enlightenment, an unlikely team of European scientists and naval officers set out on the world's first international, cooperative scientific expedi
In the early eighteenth century, at the peak of the Enlightenment, an unlikely team of European scientists and naval officers set out on the world’s first international, cooperative scientific expedit
"Naval architecture was born in the mountains of Peru, in the mind of a Frenchastronomer named Pierre Bouguer who never built a ship in his life." So writes Larrie Ferreiro atthe beginning of this pio
"Naval architecture was born in the mountains of Peru, in the mind of a Frenchastronomer named Pierre Bouguer who never built a ship in his life." So writes Larrie Ferreiro atthe beginning of this pio
An illustrated collection of essays that explores the international dimensions of the American Revolution and its legacies in both America and around the worldThe American Revolution: A World War argu
It's less than six months after the events of Got and our nameless narrator has vanished off the Brooklyn grid only to end up in Atlanta, where he now lives with his ambitious but somewhat dim-witted
There's a young man living in the infamous Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. He is an orphaned college student trying to get through his sophomore year at age twenty-three, year behind the traditiona