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Down the River to a Fight
When Doctor Owens sets out from Charleston, South Carolina, in the summer of 1813, intending to offer his services to General Andrew Jackson, America's fortunes in the War of 1812 looked quite bleak. General Jackson proves to be far more interested in Owens' intelligence skills than his medical ones, however, and Owens is sent to take on several delicate and very dangerous intelligence missions, including an effort to keep the Spanish from intervening on the British side during the war. Hurrying from the defense of Mobile in late 1814, he and his friends are just in time to be in the thick of things for the Battle of New Orleans in July 1815.
The Paris Treaty
In the weeks after the October 1781 victory at Yorktown, it becomes clear that the struggle for American independence has shifted from the battlefields of the New World to the Royal courts of Europe. Dr. Owens and friends are sent on a perilous winter crossing of the Atlantic to help the American negotiators in Paris, and must find their way in a wholly unfamiliar environment of power, espionage and intrigue.
Eulalia's Story
Born a slave in Cuba and sent to South Carolina by a vengeful master, Eulalia pursues freedom for herself and her adopted country. She comes to serve as a spy for General Washington, shuttling false information across the British lines in advance of the crucial Battle of Yorktown in 1781, which won American independence.
Strange Road to Yorktown Part One
On his very first intelligence mission for General Washington, aspiring doctor Owens is captured by the British Navy and pressed -- however reluctantly -- into King George's service. During this time, he learns on the job as a surgeon, and is called on to participate in the surprise British attack on the Spanish fort at Omoa along the Caribbean coast of Central America. To get back to the American revolutionary effort, he must first find a way to get out of the British Navy, then avoid capture, and work his way across the Caribbean and home. It is not a direct route.
Strange Road to Yorktown Part Two
The American Revolution is still raging, but young Doctor Owens finds himself on the Pacific Coast of Central America. Having escaped from the British Navy, and recovered from a gunshot wound, he has been pressed into service in the Spanish colonial army to thwart a British effort to seize Central America. But he remains determined to return to the revolutionary fight at home. Getting there is the problem - it means hopscotching across the Caribbean in hopes of finding a friendly ship going north. Fortunately, he is not too late to make it to Virginia in time for the Battle of Yorktown, the battle which secured America's independence.
The Wealth of a Nation
The United States is entering a period of profound uncertainty in the world political economy--an uncertainty which is threatening the liberal economic order that its own statesmen created at the end of the Second World War. The storm surrounding this threat has been ignited by an issue that has divided Americans since the nation's founding: international trade. Is America better off under a liberal trade regime, or would protectionism be more beneficial? The issue divided Alexander Hamilton from Thomas Jefferson, the agrarian south from the industrializing north, and progressives from robber barons in the Gilded Age. In our own times, it has pitted anti-globalization activists and manufactu...
Lucy
"How our oldest human ancestor was discovered--and who she was"--Cover.
Occupied America
In Occupied America, Donald F. Johnson chronicles the everyday lives of ordinary people living under British military occupation during the American Revolution. Focusing on port cities, Johnson recovers how Americans navigated dire hardships, balanced competing attempts to secure their loyalty, and in the end rejected restored royal rule.
A Diplomat at Home
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