{"title":"Brooke Barbier","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"king-hancock-book-brooke-barbier-9780674271777","title":"King Hancock","description":"Today John Hancock is known for his signature, but during the revolutionary era, he was famed for his pragmatic statesmanship. Brooke Barbier explores Hancocks position as a revolutionary who nonetheless understood the value of compromise. By shunning political extremes, Hancock became hugely influential in the infant United States.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49746015977745,"sku":"NGR9780674271777","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49906218664209,"sku":"CIN0674271777G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50939911373073,"sku":"CIN0674271777VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50984045871377,"sku":"NIN9780674271777","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51197874897169,"sku":"GOR014197344","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52879961129233,"sku":"CIN0674271777LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0674271777.jpg?v=1751105412"},{"product_id":"boston-in-the-american-revolution-book-brooke-barbier-9781467135887","title":"Boston in the American Revolution","description":"In 1764, a small town in the British colony of Massachusetts ignited a bold rebellion. When Great Britain levied the Sugar Act on its American colonies, Parliament was not prepared for Boston s backlash. For the next decade, Loyalists and rebels harried one another as both sides revolted and betrayed, punished and murdered. But the rebel leaders were not quite the heroes we consider them today. Samuel Adams and John Hancock were reluctant allies. Paul Revere couldn t recognize a traitor in his own inner circle. And George Washington dismissed the efforts of the Massachusetts rebels as unimportant. With a helpful guide to the very sites where the events unfolded, historian Brooke Barbier seeks the truth behind the myths. Barbier tells the story of how a city radicalized itself against the world s most powerful empire and helped found the United States of America.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50299235795217,"sku":"GOR011627646","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50682342801681,"sku":"CIN1467135887VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51028108083473,"sku":"NIN9781467135887","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51173007163665,"sku":"CIN1467135887G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1467135887.jpg?v=1750858592"},{"product_id":"boston-in-the-american-revolution-book-brooke-barbier-9781540215499","title":"Boston in the American Revolution","description":"In 1764, a small town in the British colony of Massachusetts ignited a bold rebellion. When Great Britain levied the Sugar Act on its American colonies, Parliament was not prepared for Boston s backlash. For the next decade, Loyalists and rebels harried one another as both sides revolted and betrayed, punished and murdered. But the rebel leaders were not quite the heroes we consider them today. Samuel Adams and John Hancock were reluctant allies. Paul Revere couldn t recognize a traitor in his own inner circle. And George Washington dismissed the efforts of the Massachusetts rebels as unimportant. With a helpful guide to the very sites where the events unfolded, historian Brooke Barbier seeks the truth behind the myths. Barbier tells the story of how a city radicalized itself against the world s most powerful empire and helped found the United States of America.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50379855888657,"sku":"CIN1540215490G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51036291072273,"sku":"NIN9781540215499","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1540215490.jpg?v=1750718261"},{"product_id":"king-hancock-book-brooke-barbier-9780674301511","title":"King Hancock","description":"Today John Hancock is known for his signature, but during the  revolutionary era, he was famed for his pragmatic statesmanship. Brooke  Barbier explores Hancocks position as a revolutionary who nonetheless  understood the value of compromise. By shunning political extremes,  Hancock became hugely influential in the infant United States.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51697677500689,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51697677533457,"sku":"NGR9780674301511","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52522997842193,"sku":"NIN9780674301511","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/067430151X.jpg?v=1777630040"},{"product_id":"cocked-and-boozy-book-brooke-barbier-9781641606998","title":"Cocked and Boozy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmerica's founding generation drank a staggering amount of alcohol by today's standards.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It influenced their politics, built and sustained their relationships, and drove the economy. Booze was not a small part of colonial society, nor covertly consumed in private spaces--it was integral to American life. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorians have been reluctant to discuss the influence of alcohol on the founding of the United States, but it is necessary if we want to gain a full picture of the movement--it's time to reveal the drunken side of the American Revolution.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCocked and Boozy\u003c\/i\u003e--two of Benjamin Franklin's two hundred terms for drunkenness--public historian Brooke Barbier examines the role that alcohol played in spurring, binding, and winning the American Revolution and how it shaped the nascent United States. Every chapter concludes with an eighteenth-century cocktail recipe made for modern tastes, so readers can participate in their own historic tippling.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe intoxicating story begins in 1763 after the end of the French and Indian War and spans until 1800, with the presidential election of Thomas Jefferson. During these nearly four decades, Americans witnessed unprecedented disorder and prodigious growth, and through it all--powering it, in fact--was alcohol. \u003cb\u003ePut simply, drink helped transform British subjects into Americans.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53511633535249,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53511633568017,"sku":"NIN9781641606998","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781641606998.jpg?v=1778203363"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-brooke-barbier.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}