Alan Taylor

American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Excellent...deserves high praise. Mr. Taylor conveys this sprawling continental history with economy, clarity, and vividness." Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal

The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the nation its democratic framework. Alan Taylor, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history. The American Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain's colonies, fueled 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 smoldering 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. But it was Jefferson's expansive empire of liberty that carried the revolution forward, propelling white settlement and slavery west, preparing the ground for a new conflagration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393253870
• Artikelnr.: 59588978

Autorenporträt

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.