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THE FATE OF THE WORLD
A Global History of the American Revolution
THE FATE OF THE WORLD reconstructs the global reach and resonance of the American Revolution, exploring how the familiar story changes when we locate the war in a worldwide context.
What is gained when we set the experiences of Black freedom-fighters front and center, alongside border-crossing radicals, refugees, and redcoats? When we consider this conflict as a war staged by Indigenous people to protect their homelands and defend their own sovereignty? When we think about it as part of a titanic struggle between Britain and other European empires like France and Spain for control of a vast, resource-rich new world? And when we place it in a chain of revolutionary insurrections bent on overturning autocratic regimes in Europe, Africa, and South America between 1775 and 1800?
Answering these questions requires us to cast aside worn-out notions of American exceptionalism and embrace a larger and far more inclusive narrative that recognizes the impact wrought by the movement of goods, ideas, and polyglot people around the 18th-century world. It invites us to place the dreams and hopes of Jamaican carpenters, Mohawk traders, Spanish siege captains, Hessian hirelings, British Loyalist exiles, French sailors, African rebels, Bengali rulers, Mediterranean privateers, Chinese tea-growers, and British convicts on the same stage as the American Sons of Liberty, the Minutemen, and the members of the Continental Congress. It requires us to recognize that Caribbean slave labor camps, Indian Ocean shipping lanes, Florida forts, French dockyards, Central American jungles, Canadian refugee camps, Irish prison hulks, and Ohio forests were just as important sites of struggle in this global war as Lexington Green, Independence Hall, or Valley Forge.
In short, THE FATE OF THE WORLD allows us to imagine the American Revolution in post-exceptional terms as a creation story in the making of our multicultural and interconnected modern world.
Richard Bell is a British-born, American-trained professor of history at the University of Maryland, with degrees from Harvard and Cambridge. He is the author of Stolen and is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Answering these questions requires us to cast aside worn-out notions of American exceptionalism and embrace a larger and far more inclusive narrative that recognizes the impact wrought by the movement of goods, ideas, and polyglot people around the 18th-century world. It invites us to place the dreams and hopes of Jamaican carpenters, Mohawk traders, Spanish siege captains, Hessian hirelings, British Loyalist exiles, French sailors, African rebels, Bengali rulers, Mediterranean privateers, Chinese tea-growers, and British convicts on the same stage as the American Sons of Liberty, the Minutemen, and the members of the Continental Congress. It requires us to recognize that Caribbean slave labor camps, Indian Ocean shipping lanes, Florida forts, French dockyards, Central American jungles, Canadian refugee camps, Irish prison hulks, and Ohio forests were just as important sites of struggle in this global war as Lexington Green, Independence Hall, or Valley Forge.
In short, THE FATE OF THE WORLD allows us to imagine the American Revolution in post-exceptional terms as a creation story in the making of our multicultural and interconnected modern world.
Richard Bell is a British-born, American-trained professor of history at the University of Maryland, with degrees from Harvard and Cambridge. He is the author of Stolen and is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
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