Freedom Round the Globe

[An] informed and lively [introduction] to the global dimensions of the Revolution . . . [Pearsall] has an inviting voice and a sense of humour . . . delightfully readable

The Wall Street Journal

Engaging . . . With Pearsall's expert guidance, we meet revolutionaries and liberty lovers . . . in far-flung places . . . Pearsall's book does so much to illuminate [American history]

The New York Times

Immersive . . . a roving narrative that ranges from European power politics to resistance movements of Indigenous and enslaved peoples . . . a remarkably clarifying picture of the revolutionary spirit that swept the world in the 1770s

Publishers Weekly

A revealing study of the global dimensions of America’s war for independence

Kirkus Reviews

This book is FANTASTIC. So giddy and interesting is the journey. The best and most enthralling thing may be the way in which Pearsall makes strange this familiar subject, pulling deep insights like beautiful silken handkerchiefs from a pocket no one had even noticed. What a triumph. I loved it.

Christopher Clark, author of Revolutionary Spring

A stimulating account of a major episode in history that brings out its global impact

Jeremy Black, author of Crisis of Empire

A brilliant and timely interpretation of the American Revolution, and a new understanding of the eighteenth-century world. Beautifully conceived, elegantly written, deeply researched, Freedom Round the Globe is a must read for anyone interested in American and world history

Clifton Crais, author of The Killing Age

Incredible . . . vibrant, inventive, intricate . . . This extraordinary history offers thrilling narrative, sharp analysis, and encouragement to liberty’s defenders while presenting a carrousel of fascinating figures – some familiar, most refreshingly new

Tiya Miles, Cundill History Prize-winning author of All That She Carried

With sparkling narrative and research ingenuity, this book takes us to all manner of people in taverns, villages, castles, cornfields, and far away havens of imperialism to show that the cause of the American Revolution was taken up, ideologically, politically, and militarily all over the globe. An amazing and beautifully crafted book

David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

Freedom Round the Globe is a joy and achievement. Exhibiting great familiarity with the new literatures of early America as well as a sweeping expanse of new sites of analysis, the book's characters and narrative jump off the page’

Ned Blackhawk, author of The Rediscovery of America and National Book Award winner

In this risky, energizing reimagining of the American Revolution, Pearsall shows how ordinary people spanning the globe understood empire's brutal costs and dared to rebel

Anne Hyde, author of Empires, Nations and Families and Pulitzer Prize finalist

A syncopated dance of ideas delivered with a poetic touch. Global in scope and local in depth, it is chock full of unexpected insights

Jefferson Cowie, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Freedom’s Dominion

Weaving together events from far and near, Pearsall has crafted a stunning narrative of the American Revolution and made visible the interconnected world of that era

Andrés Reséndez, author of The Other Slavery and National Book Award finalist

A masterful re-interpretation of the American Revolution as a global event . . . the journey to the heart of this Revolution is fascinating, full of twists, turns, and astonishing vistas. A conceptually rich account underpinned by deep research

Emma Griffin, author of Liberty's Dawn

Pearsall is a lively writer, her text enlivened by flashes of irony and humour . . . Readers will see some of the standard political, military and diplomatic narratives about the rebellion and the war, but they will also learn about women’s self-liberation, military atrocities, male homosexuality and the spectre of yellow fever . . . her creative synthesising of upheavals makes it feel like a fresh narrative even to readers who might already be familiar with the War of American Independence

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