| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

The Creation of America: Through Revolution to Empire. By Francis Jennings. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii, 340 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-521-66255-9. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-521-66481-0.)

Most academic books advance a single argument. Not this one. Francis Jennings, who died last year, first aimed to provide a history of the Anglo-American experience, with particular attention to the American Revolution and its consequences. But he also aimed for another target: a group of historians whose interpretations of the American past, and particularly the Revolution, missed what he believed was the prime outcome of the struggle. 1

The first part of the book provides an overview of the colonization of the mainland colonies. As the author of a number of previous books on the early American experience, Jennings came to this task as an expert. Unfortunately, his research skills in this book were not as strong as in his earlier efforts; the majority of citations in these first chapters are to secondary sources, many to his own work, and the argument does not reflect much relevant current scholarship. . . .

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