Turning the World Upside Down The War of American Independence and the Problem of Empire

Subjects:

• History » American History -- Colonial Era
• History » European History -- Early Modern/Renaissance

Reviews:

• [T]his is a thought-provoking work that makes some interesting points....Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.
  —Choice June 2004
• [S]ucceeds in providing a cogent narrative of the imperial precursors to the Revolution and of major military and diplomatic developments in the early United States....This book is best read as a guide to the ways military power shaped the imperial course of the American Revolution and the early diplomatic relationships of the United States....[a] useful diplomatic narrative and military strategy analysis of the American Revolution.
  —The Historian Summer 2005
• [W]ill change how we teach and think about American history. In fewer than two hundred pages, York has recast American history into a global context without losing sight of the individual actors who shaped it.
  —The Journal of American History December 2004
• York illustrates how revolutionary Americans founded an empire as well as a nation, and how they saw the two as inseparable.
  —Coastlines Spring 2004

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Imperial Competition and the Rise of British America
• Revolt without Revolution
• Revolution Embraced, Independence Declared
• The War as Great Power Conflict
• New Nation, New Empire
• Suggested Reading