That approach demotes neighboring empires and native peoples to bit players and minor obstacles to inevitable American expansion.” Most books on the Revolution, he writes, “focus on the national story of the United States. . . Taylor says “American Revolutions” is “a sequel” to that earlier work. In 2001 Alan Taylor, one of America’s most distinguished historians and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, published a well-received book entitled “American Colonies,” which he regarded as “a half step toward a more global (and less national) sensibility for our place in time.” That book challenged the traditional focus on the English and British contributions to American colonial history by including the other cultures - Native American, African, Spanish, French, Dutch and even Russian - that were involved in the settlements that eventually became the United States.
AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS A Continental History, 1750-1804 By Alan Taylor Illustrated.
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