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Alan Taylor American Revolution Summary

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My book review is on Alan Taylor’s American Revolution: A Continental History, 1750-1804 published in 2016. This book is one of many that he wrote on the events behind the American Revolution. Taylor’s purpose for writing this book was not to tell about who was fighting in the war or the successful outcomes of it; he wrote this book to describe the horror and cruel happenings behind the American Revolution. In Taylor’s writings he includes all the many different things that happened in the Spanish Empire in the 1780s. Subsequently, these small happenings did not make much of a difference toward the revolution, although, Taylor highlights that the slave rebellion made an impact on Saint-Domingue in 1790s. This book highlights all the “behind the scenes” of the revolution. The includes the many different cultures brought in by the war such as Native American, African, Spanish, French, Dutch, and Russian. To me, Taylor’s purpose may have been that from making this book it made it stand out from all the other books that involves the American Revolution. …show more content…

This book did stand out from others that were written on the war. Taylor wanted to emphasize the hardship not the glory, the cruel behaviors of slave owners not the success, and the uprisings of underdogs not the main event. In addition to what I believe Taylor’s purpose is for this book, Taylor is not trying to overrule the significance of the war. In the writing Taylor voices how white men treated other races. He states how the white men would go against the governments orders and go to the Indians’ lands and terrorize and murder the Indians for land. He proceeds saying that the white men would follow government orders only for

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