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American Revolutions
A Continental History, 1750-1804
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From a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a fresh, authoritative history that recasts thinking about Americaβs founding period.
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The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the nation with its democratic framework. Alan Taylor, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, offers a different creation story in this magisterial history.
American Revolutions builds like a ground fire overspreading Britainβs colonies, fuelled by local conditions and resistant to control. Emerging from the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, the revolution pivoted on western expansion as well as seaboard resistance to British taxes. When war erupted, Patriot crowds harassed Loyalists and nonpartisans into compliance with their cause. The war exploded in set battles like Saratoga and Yorktown and spread through continuing frontier violence.
The discord smouldering within the fragile new nation called forth a movement to concentrate power through a Federal Constitution. Assuming the mantle of We the People, the advocates of national power ratified the new frame of government. However, it was Jefferson's expansive βempire of libertyβ that carried the revolution forward, propelling white settlement and slavery west, preparing the ground for a new conflagration.
37 illustrations; 10 maps
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American Revolutions by Alan Taylor is highly praised for its comprehensive and vivid depiction of the American Revolution. The Wall Street Journal commends the book for its clarity and engaging delivery, while the Family and Community History Journal regards it as a significant and remarkable contribution to contemporary historical understanding.
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ISBN: 9780393354768
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 October 2017
Country: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Illustration: 37 illustrations; 10 maps
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 211.0mm
Weight: 511g
Pages: 704
About the Author
Alan Taylor, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history, is the author of American Revolutions and American Republics, prior volumes in his acclaimed continental history of the United States. He is professor emeritus of history at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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