'This is a rich volume, teeming with rejuvenated views of the American Revolution and new insights into the concept of 'American exceptionalism' that, by and large, seems to have lost most of its past luster.' - Gérard Hugues, H-Diplo

THOMAS CLARK Assistant Professor of American History, the University of Kassel, Germany BRADLEY A. JONES Lecturer in History, University of Glasgow, UI CSABA LÉVAI Associate Professor of History, University of Debrecen, Hungary ANTHONY MCFARLANE Professor of History, University of Warwick, UK JOSEPH EUGENE MULLIN Associate Professor of American Literature and American Society and Culture, University of the Minho, Portugal SIMON P. NEWMAN Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American Studies, University of Glasgow, UK ANDREW PEPPER Lecturer in English and American Literature, Queen's University Belfast, UK MARIE-JEANNE ROSSIGNOL Professor of American Civilization, University of Paris 7, Denis-Diderot, France