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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
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English
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Politics & government

TO BEGIN THE WORLD ALL OVER AGAIN

Matthew Lockwood

How the American Revolution Debastated the Globe

The first exploration of the profound and often catastrophic impact the American Revolution had on the rest of the world.

While the American Revolution led to domestic peace and liberty, it ultimately had a catastrophic global impact - it strengthened the British Empire and led to widespread persecution and duress. From the opium wars in China to anti-imperial rebellions in Peru to the colonization of Australia - the inspirational impact the American success had on fringe uprisings was outweighed by the influence it had on the tightening fists of oppressive world powers.

With stylish prose, Matthew Lockwood presents, in vivid detail, the neglected story of this unintended revolution. It sowed the seeds of collapse for the preeminent empires of the early modern era, setting the stage for the global domination of Britain, Russia, and the United States. Lockwood's incorporation of thoughtfully chosen human stories illuminate the forgotten experiences of the communities and individuals who adapted to this new world in which the global balance of power had been drastically altered.

Matthew Lockwood is assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama and the author of The Conquest of Death: Violence and the Birth of the Modern English State.

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Book Published 2019-10-22 by Yale University Press

Comments

Matthew Lockwood is a master story-teller, deftly showcasing the lives of ordinary people alongside the impact of historical ideas and events. To Begin the World Over Again is enthralling, provocative, and wonderfully enlightening.

A major contribution to our understanding of the American Revolution. Lockwood demonstrates that American independence had global ramifications. He does so with an eye for telling detail and graceful prose and deserves a wide audience of specialists and general readers.

A breakthrough popular history, written with a novelist's eye for detail and atmosphere.

A stunning narrative about the violent aftershocks of the American Revolution. Lockwood shows how the American revolution set off a global war in its own image that carried revolutionary violence and imperial repression not only to Europe but also to South America, India, Australia and Africa. His book movingly portrays the consequences for indigenous and subject peoples all over the globe, including those in the new United States.

It has seemed to each generation that no more can be said about the American Revolution; and then along comes a book like this, to tell us we have been looking in the wrong places.

Lockwood untangles this complex story in a tour de force of historical scholarship.