The British Empire and the American Revolution

Описание: Historian Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Ph.D., discusses his new book, Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America's Early Independence, arguing that understanding the long-term causes of the American Revolution requires a global view. At the time of the war, the British empire had colonies in India, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, Canada, and Gibraltar. The revolution in America was an imperial event produced by the upheavals of managing a far-flung set of imperial perceptions during a turbulent period of reform. Drawing from his new book, Dr. O'Shaughnessy looks beyond the familiar borders of the Revolution to explore how the Revolution fit in the larger British empire.

About the Speaker
Andrew O’Shaughnessy is a professor of history at the University of Virginia. Between 2003 and 2023, he was vice president of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello and the Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. He is the author of An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000); The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (Yale University Press, 2013); and The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson’s Idea of a University (University of Virginia Press, 2021).

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