1776: A Continental Revolution

As the American colonists made their Declaration of Independence from the British monarchy on July 4, 1776, a chain reaction of political events across North America occurred simultaneously that would affect the political, economic, cultural and geographical history of the continent up to the present day. Claudio Saunt’s West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (W.W. Norton, $26.95) insightfully turns conventional 18th-century American history 180 degrees and provides readers w