| International Standard Book Number |
9780385548717 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
0385548710 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780385548724 ebook
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| Personal Name |
Pearsall, Sarah M. S., author.
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| Title Statement |
Freedom round the globe : a world history of the American Revolution / Sarah M.S. Pearsall.
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| Edition Statement |
First Doubleday hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Doubleday, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
xi, 419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
A Gallows in Bkejwanong : Unity -- A Tavern in St. Kitts : Consent -- A Street in Kolkata : Governments -- A Society in Edinburgh : Happiness -- A Castle in Anomabu : Liberty -- A Wall in Quebec : Independence -- A Village in Hessen-Kassel : Civility -- A Hall in Versailles : Respect -- A Cornfield in the Six Nations : Security -- A Rock in Gibraltar : Life -- A Cabana in Havana : Honor -- A Mansion in Guangzhou : Fortunes -- A Settlement in Sierra Leone : Equality.
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| Summary, Etc. |
In her powerful new history of the American Revolution, prizewinning historian Sarah M. S. Pearsall argues that the American Founding Fathers did not have a unique claim on the revolutionary spirit. The thirteen colonies that became the United States, she reminds us, were not even half of the British colonies that existed in the eighteenth century. Freedom Round the Globe uncovers the insurgents, freedom lovers, and dreamers in India, West Africa, North America, Europe, China, and West Indian islands who shaped the nature of American rebellion and nationhood. In each fresh and sparkling chapter of Freedom Round the Globe, Pearsall plucks a keyword from the Declaration of Independence--security, equality, respect-- finding its spark in a far-flung place. In an Edinburgh club where women were first invited into philosophical conversations, she explores what the pursuit of happiness meant to women and men of all sorts. She traces how accelerations in the scale and brutality of transatlantic slavery provoked a new emphasis on liberty in Anomabu, West Africa, that reverberated across the Atlantic in poetry, petitions, and cries of "liberty of death." On a Kolkata street where Indians protested relentless taxes, Pearsall finds a critique of oppressive imperial government that galvanized Americans in their protests and parties against the tea of the English East India Company. And in rural Germany, boy soldiers sent abroad to die for Britain complicate who can lay claim to being civilized in a brutal war. By telling the extraordinary tales of Friends of Liberty protesting tyranny around the world, Pearsall restores these individuals and movements to their rightful place in the vital story of the American Revolution and the nation it created. The result is a stirring and surprising revision of American history. Front and back book flap.
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| Subject-Corporate Name |
United States. Declaration of Independence.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Social values History 18th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Liberty.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States History Influence. Revolution, 1775-1783
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works.
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