America Compared to History’s Great Empires

Introduction In this interview: “Americans invariably described their new polity, not just as a republic, but also as an empire… They used the word empire over and over and over again. Watch this segment in the video below (00:10:01) America was founded as a republic. So why did early Americans repeatedly describe it as an […]

India and the Global Forces Behind the British Defeat at Yorktown

In Analyzing American Revolution, the global nature of the Revolutionary War has become an inescapable theme. As you will see in the examples below, many of our guest scholars reference and discuss how the fighting in the Thirteen American Colonies transformed into a truly world-spanning conflict. It should therefore come as no surprise that Britain’s […]

How Britain’s Imperial “Modernization” Shaped the American Revolution

Introduction In this interview: “I think it was a revolution, but only a revolution if one realizes that it’s part of… it formed part of an imperial civil war in which the American aspect of it was the most successful.” Watch this section in the video below (00:14:34). What we often miss about the American […]