American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804.

TAYLOR, Alan.

$350.00

Item Number: 148427

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

First edition of this comprehensive and nuanced perspective on the American Revolution, destined to become a classic. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “For George, an esteemed and generous colleague, with my very best wishes, Alan Taylor UVA 9-6-2016.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chin-Yee Lai.

Alan Taylor’s American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804 offers a revisionist and expansive account of the American Revolutionary era, reframing it not as a singular national event but as a complex, continent-wide upheaval. Taylor, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, challenges traditional nationalist narratives by emphasizing the roles of Native Americans, enslaved Africans, women, and Loyalists in shaping the revolution’s outcomes. Through a synthesis of political, social, and environmental history, Taylor highlights the internal divisions and long-term consequences of the revolution, including the entrenchment of slavery and displacement of Indigenous peoples.