Friday, January 20, 2017

REVOLUTIONS: ASSORTED AND . . . SKEWED

Mark R. Anderson, The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony: America's War of Liberation in Canada, 1774-1776  (Hanover & London: University Press of New England, 2013) (From the book jacket: "In this dramatic retelling of one of history's great 'what-ifs,' Mark R. Anderson examines the American colonies' campaign to bring Quebec into the Continental confederation and free the Canadians from British 'tyranny.' This significant reassessment of a little-studied campaign examines developments on both sides of the border that rapidly proceeded from peaceful diplomatic overtures to a sizable armed intervention. . . Anderson closely examines the evolving relationships between occupiers and occupied, showing how rapidly changing circumstances variously fostered cooperation and encouraged resistance among different Canadian elements. This book hones in on the key political and military factors that ultimately doomed America's first foreign war of liberation and resulted in the Continental Army's decisive explosion from Canada on the eve of the Declaration of Independence.").

Janet Polasky, Revolutions without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World (New Haven & London: Yale U. Press, 2015).

Alan Taylor, American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804  (New York: W. W. Norton, 2016) (See Gordon S. Wood, "White Man's War," NYT Book Review, Sunday, September 10, 2016: "A Pulitzer-winning historian shows how the American Revolution worked  against, blacks, Indians and women.").