This panoramic account of 1776 chronicles the other revolutions
unfolding that year across North America, far beyond the British
colonies.
In
this unique history of 1776, Claudio Saunt looks beyond the familiar
story of the thirteen colonies to explore the many other revolutions
roiling the turbulent American continent. In that fateful year, the
Spanish landed in San Francisco, the Russians pushed into Alaska to
hunt valuable sea otters, and the Sioux discovered the Black Hills.
Hailed by critics for challenging our conventional view of the birth
of America, West of the Revolution “[coaxes] our vision away
from the Atlantic seaboard” and “exposes a continent seething
with peoples and purposes beyond Minutemen and Redcoats” (Wall
Street Journal).