The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britain's most humiliating defeat as an imperial power. In this lively, concise book, Eliga Gould examines an importa
Covering the seven decades between the start of the French and Indian War in the mid-1750s and the articulation of the Monroe Doctrine, this history by Gould (history, U. of New Hampshire) explores ho
How did events and ideas from elsewhere in the British empire influence development in the thirteen American colonies? What was the effect of the American Revolution on the wider Atlantic world? In E
The essays in Empire and Nation challenge facile assumptions about the "exceptional" character of the republic's founding moment, even as they invite readers to think anew about the
