| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World. Ed. by Eliga H. Gould and Peter S. Onuf. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. x, 381 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8018-7912-4.)
The editors of this collection comment that British eighteenth-century historians are remarkably parochial in their approach to political issues. True, of course, but all national histories tend toward insularity. The great merit of this collection of essays is that they resume the task of setting the establishment of the United States in a broader context while simultaneously paying respect to the microhistory of domestic development.	1
Many superficially similar collections attempt to provide closing summaries of current scholarship on particular issues. These stimulating essays do the opposite: by covering fifteen diverse subjects, they suggest fresh areas for consideration and open new lines of attack. They are brigaded into three groups in an essentially linear sequence. The first discusses the problems created by separation from Britain and the need to find replacements for the imperial community. The second continues by assessing the extent of change within the United States, and the third returns to the international theme by examining aspects of the position of the United States as an independent country within the broader Atlantic world and offering some interesting parallels to the United States experience.	. . .

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