{"product_id":"american-revolutions-a-continental-history-17501804-9780393082814","title":"American Revolutions: A Continental History  1750-1804","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner  a fresh  authoritative history that recasts our thinking about Americas founding period. The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded  orderly event whose capstone  the Constitution  provided the ideal framework for a democratic  prosperous nation. Alan Taylor  two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize  gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nations founding. Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies  Taylors Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britains mainland colonies  fueled by local conditions  destructive  hard to quell. Conflict ignited on the frontier  where settlers clamored to push west into Indian lands against British restrictions  and in the seaboard cities  where commercial elites mobilized riots and boycotts to resist British tax policies. When war erupted  Patriot crowds harassed Loyalists and nonpartisans into compliance with their cause. Brutal guerrilla violence flared all along the frontier from New York to the Carolinas  fed by internal divisions as well as the clash with Britain. Taylor skillfully draws France  Spain  and native powers into a comprehensive narrative of the war that delivers the major battles  generals  and common soldiers with insight and power. With discord smoldering in the fragile new nation through the 1780s  nationalist leaders such as James Madison and Alexander Hamilton sought to restrain unruly state democracies and consolidate power in a Federal Constitution. Assuming the mantle of We the People  the advocates of national power ratified the new frame of government. But their opponents prevailed in the presidency of Thomas Jefferson  whose vision of a western empire of liberty aligned with the long-standing  expansive ambitions of frontier settlers. White settlement and black slavery spread west  setting the stage for a civil war that nearly destroyed the union created by the founders. 37 illustrations; 10 maps\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280103006261,"sku":"ByrdShop_0393082814","price":53.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780393082814.jpg?v=1780621065","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/american-revolutions-a-continental-history-17501804-9780393082814","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}