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Book SynopsisA bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representation
Trade Review"
Revolution Against Empire re-situates the Revolution not as a colonial rebellion against the mother country but as one episode in a much larger political quarrel that swept the British Empire in the second half of the eighteenth century."—
New YorkerFinalist for the Sally and Morris Lasky prize, established by the Center for Political History at Lebanon Valley College, for the best book in American political history published in 2017.
"Revolution Against Empire is the first book in a long while to revive the imperial approach to debating the causes of the American Revolution. It makes a novel case which restores the role of ideology in the study of eighteenth century Britain and its policies in America."—Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, author of
The Men Who Lost America"An extraordinarily valuable contribution to our understanding of the Revolution’s origins—and to the character of the 'empire' it gave rise to."—Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia
"Du Rivage’s brilliant
Revolution Against Empire returns political economy squarely to the center of the American revolutionary experience, boldly overturning old certainties and offering a timely meditation on the nature of taxation, representation, and the role of the state in worldly affairs."—Sophus A. Reinert, author of
Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy"In this meticulously researched and lucidly written book, du Rivage brilliantly traces the ideological differences in the British Empire that gave birth to political factions and ultimately sparked the American Revolution."—Carl Wennerlind, Barnard College, Columbia University
"Brilliant and thoroughly researched . . . genuinely original."—William Ashworth, University of Liverpool
