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Often understood as a high-minded, orderly event, the American Revolution grows in this masterful history like a ground fire overspreading Britain's mainland colonies, fuelled by local conditions and resistant to control. Emerging from the rivalries of European empires and their allies, the revolution pivoted on western expansion as well as…
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1 author picked American Revolutions as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The other books I am recommending focus on pieces of the Revolution; American Revolutions is a sweeping history of the American Revolution.
This is the book I recommend to anyone who wants the whole story, from the Revolution’s causes coming out of the Seven Years’ War, through protests, declaring independence, fighting a war across the continent, to Jefferson’s postwar visions of American expansion.
Most big picture histories of the Revolution are still stuck in the old Founding Fathers and generals model, but American Revolutions manages to tell all of this history without focusing solely on men like John Adams and…
From Kathleen's list on the American Revolution beyond the Founding Fathers.
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