The American Revolution

A revised version of an American history classic, exploring the people and culture of the Revolutionary era that birthed the nation. When The American Revolution was first published in 1985, it was praised as the first synthesis of the Revolutionary War to use the new social history. Bancroft Prize-winning professor of history Edward Countryman offered a balanced view of how the Revolution was made by a variety of groups—ordinary farmers as well as lawyers, women as well as men, blacks as well a