Any PHA member-public historians, researchers, writers, teachers, and students-will gain much from reading this book. This wide-ranging synthesis draws upon a vast number of secondary sources (both recent and time-honored), mixes in plenty of primary sources, and explains cogently and engagingly how the United States attained its independence and struggled during its initial decades. More broadly, Taylor places Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic region within the larger contexts of the eighteenth century, North America, and the empires of Britain, France, and Spain. Members of the PHA will find Taylor's analysis of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic region intelligent and balanced, albeit spotty (as one might expect from a book that provides a "continental" perspective). Alan Taylor, distinguished historian of colonial North America, the American Revolution, and the Early Republic, whose books have won the Bancroft Prize, two Pulitzer Prizes, and best book prizes from the AHA, OAH, and SHEAR, has now given us American Revolutions.
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