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In "The American Revolution, 1760 to 1790: New Nation as New Empire," Neil York details the important and complex events that transpired during the creation of the enduring American Republic. This text presents a global look at the emerging nation s quest to balance liberty and authority before, during, and after the conflict with Great Britain, from the fall of Montreal through the Nootka Sound controversy. Through reviewing the causes and consequences of the Revolutionary era, York uncovers the period s paradoxes in an accessible, introductory text.

Taking an international perspective...

Henry Hulton was an Englishman who moved to Boston in 1767 as a member of the new American Board of Customs Commissioners. The board was supposed to curtail smuggling and bring greater efficiency to the administration of empire. It failed, and Hulton fled Massachusetts in 1776, joining an exodus of the politically displaced.

Hulton eventually wrote a never-published history of the American rebellion as he experienced it. Although his complaints about the -demagogues- who dominated Massachusetts politics echo those made by other Loyalists, Hulton adds another dimension to our...

York illustrates how Revolutionary Americans founded an empire as well as a nation, and how they saw the two as inseparable. While they had rejected Britain and denounced power politics, they would engage in realpolitik and mimic Britain as they built their empire of liberty. England had become Great Britain as an imperial nation, and Britons believed that their empire promised much to all fortunate enough to be part of it. Colonial Americans shared that belief and sense of pride. But as clashing interests and changing identities put them at odds with the prevailing view in London,...

In "The American Revolution, 1760 to 1790: New Nation as New Empire," Neil York details the important and complex events that transpired during the creation of the enduring American Republic. This text presents a global look at the emerging nation s quest to balance liberty and authority before, during, and after the conflict with Great Britain, from the fall of Montreal through the Nootka Sound controversy. Through reviewing the causes and consequences of the Revolutionary era, York uncovers the period s paradoxes in an accessible, introductory text.

Taking an international perspective...