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![]() ![]() In the process, Taylor explains, the colonists came to think of themselves, like their British forbearers, as “especially blessed and enlightened by commerce, civil liberties, the common law, and their Protestant faith,” compared to the “economically backward, religiously superstitious, culturally decadent, and submissive to despotic rule” French and Spanish colonies. ![]() One can see in Taylor’s simple chapter titles the range and scope of his book: “Colonies,” “Land,” “Slaves,” “Rebels,” “Allies,” “Loyalties,” “Wests,” “Oceans,” “Shocks,” “Republics,” “Partisans,” and “Legacies.” Only the chapters on Loyalties, Wests, and Oceans center on the events usually understood as the American Revolution.Ī Pulitzer-Prize winning professor of history at the University of Virginia, Taylor explains how in the 17th and 18th centuries largely white European slave-owning colonists settled between Boston and Charleston, helping Britain gain dominance in North America against Spain and France and their neighboring colonies. The result is the placing of the “American Revolution” between white American colonists and the British Empire (1775–1783) in a much larger context. ![]() Taylor provides a careful, concise account of the quarrels, wars, diplomacy, frontier and internal skirmishes, and uprisings that occurred in North America, from Canada down through Central America and the Caribbean, between 17. Alan Taylor’s American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750– 1804 is a wonderful book. ![]()
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