Beyond 1776: Globalizing the Cultures of the American Revolution by Maria O’Malley, Denys Van Renen (review)

[...]there is very little that is American about Beyond 1776, so nonspecialists may wish to brush up on US history before engaging with this book. [...]they are attentive to issues of scale and the dialectic between the local and the global. [...]US independence provided inspiration for the Netherla...

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Published inEarly American Literature Vol. 55; no. 1; pp. 250 - 255
Main Author McCurdy, John G
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 2020
Subjects
20th century
American history
American literature
American Revolution
Authorship
Essays
Historians
Ideology
Nation states
Nonfiction
O Malley, Maria
Publishing
Publishing industry
Readers
Van Renen, Denys
Writers
Netherlands
United States > US
China
Arctic Ocean
Australia
France
India
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Summary:[...]there is very little that is American about Beyond 1776, so nonspecialists may wish to brush up on US history before engaging with this book. [...]they are attentive to issues of scale and the dialectic between the local and the global. [...]US independence provided inspiration for the Netherlands’ Patriot Revolution of the 1780s and Batavian Revolution of the 1790s. The authors’ attention to local events, specific literary works, and individuals keeps the specific relevant within an international context. [...]the editors are careful to include analyses of race and gender, and they succeed in directing readers to places like St. Eustatius, Australia, and China, places usually ignored by histories of the Revolution.
ISSN:0012-8163
1534-147X
1534-147X
DOI:10.1353/eal.2020.0016