The American Revolution

<p>The long conflict that culminated in the American Revolution and the founding of the U.S. Republic upended the lives of men and women throughout the colonies. In a time of upheaval and uncertainty they reinvented their lives their communities and their vision of the world.<br/><br/>Drawing from the pathbreaking scholarship published by the Omohundro Institute over the past fifty years these essays reflect on the experiences and legacies of the struggle for American independence from the first inklings of the imperial crisis through the war’s global aftershocks.<br/><br/>Contributors include David Armitage Christopher Leslie Brown Katherine Carté Eliga H. Gould Woody Holton Rhys Isaac Michael J. Jarvis Maya Jasanoff Linda K. Kerber Cynthia Kierner Michael A. McDonnell Johann N. Neem Mary Beth Norton Robert G. Parkinson Benjamin Quarles John A. Ruddiman Manisha Sinha and Alfred F. Young.</p>