18th Century History Books
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Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766
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Fred Anderson
4.19 avg rating — 4,236 ratings 
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
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Rick Atkinson
4.44 avg rating — 7,776 ratings 4. 
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating — 75,034 ratings 
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The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris' List
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Hallie Rubenhold
3.70 avg rating — 2,259 ratings 8. 
Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
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Marcus Rediker
3.98 avg rating — 1,142 ratings 10. 
An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America
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Nick Bunker
4.17 avg rating — 696 ratings 10. 
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
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Marcus Rediker
4.13 avg rating — 497 ratings 12. 
White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America 3.97 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America 3.76 avg rating — 660 ratings
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A Most Troublesome Situation: The British Military and the Pontiac Indian Uprising of 1763-1764 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750 3.99 avg rating — 1,809 ratings
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Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America
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David Dixon
4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings 18. 
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
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Peter Silver
3.75 avg rating — 270 ratings 19. 
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Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
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Martin Dugard
4.33 avg rating — 2,419 ratings 
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Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
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Kathleen DuVal
3.87 avg rating — 541 ratings 
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A History of Britain: The Wars of the British 1603-1776 (A History of Britain, #2)
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Simon Schama
4.02 avg rating — 1,937 ratings 29. 
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I) 4.37 avg rating — 3,471 ratings
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Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America
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Jay Atkinson
3.75 avg rating — 422 ratings 31. 
A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic
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John Ferling
4.13 avg rating — 922 ratings 32. 
Henry Knox's Noble Train: The Story of a Boston Bookseller's Heroic Expedition That Saved the American Revolution really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 156 ratings
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In the Founders' Footsteps: Landmarks of the American Revolution
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Adam Van Doren
3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings 34. 
Conquered into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War
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Eliot A. Cohen
3.99 avg rating — 95 ratings 35. 
The War of Jenkins' Ear: The Forgotten War for North and South America 1739-1748
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Robert Gaudi
3.96 avg rating — 201 ratings 36. 
Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion That Opened the West
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William Hogeland
4.18 avg rating — 557 ratings 
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By Wind and Iron: Naval Campaigns in the Champlain Valley, 1665–1815 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Road to Ticonderoga: The Campaign of 1758 in the Champlain Valley 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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War Along the Wabash: The Ohio Indian Confederacy's Destruction of the US Army, 1791
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Steven P. Locke
4.33 avg rating — 42 ratings 
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Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860
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Richard Slotkin
4.26 avg rating — 237 ratings 44. 
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
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Hampton Sides
4.46 avg rating — 15,173 ratings 45. 
Bloody Mohawk: The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier 4.16 avg rating — 312 ratings
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War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier
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John F. Ross
4.18 avg rating — 755 ratings 49. 
White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery And Vengeance in Colonial America
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Stephen Brumwell
4.09 avg rating — 429 ratings 50. 
A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis That Spurred the American Revolution
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Andrew Lawler
4.38 avg rating — 66 ratings 51. 
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The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army 3.86 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
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David L. Preston
4.30 avg rating — 288 ratings 55. 
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series) 4.13 avg rating — 9,595 ratings
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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
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Gordon S. Wood
4.15 avg rating — 5,431 ratings 58. 
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation 4.06 avg rating — 385 ratings
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The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649 - 1815
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N.A.M. Rodger
4.33 avg rating — 443 ratings 60. 
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The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
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Bushnell's Submarine: The Best Kept Secret of the American Revolution 3.95 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780 (Revolution Trilogy, 2)
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Rick Atkinson
4.67 avg rating — 1,240 ratings 66. 
Benedict Arnold's Army: The 1775 American Invasion of Canada During the Revolutionary War 4.27 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy
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Ian W. Toll
4.38 avg rating — 7,477 ratings 68. 
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution (The American Revolution Series) 4.06 avg rating — 10,151 ratings
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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
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Jeremy D. Popkin
4.18 avg rating — 2,093 ratings 70. 
The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
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Joseph J. Ellis
4.35 avg rating — 2,160 ratings 71. 
From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 3.72 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Art in Britain 1660–1815 (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Series)
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David H. Solkin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 74. 
Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England
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David H. Solkin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings 75. 
Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836
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David H. Solkin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings