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Looking at America through the Irish prism and employing a comparative approach, leading and emerging scholars of early American and Atlantic history interrogate anew the relationship between imperial reform and revolution in Ireland and America, offering fascinating insights into the imperial whole of which both places were a part.

Explores the unexpected role George Washington's 1793 Neutrality Proclamation played in energizing the US government's constitutional responsibilities to support and promote America's commercial and sovereign interests.

Explores the unexpected role George Washington's 1793 Neutrality Proclamation played in energizing the US government's constitutional responsibilities to support and promote America's commercial and sovereign interests.

Following the establishment of American independence, the Spanish empire became one of the nascent republic's most significant neighbours and, often illicitly, trading partners. Bringing together essays from a range of well-regarded historians, this volume contributes significantly to the international history of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions.

Bringing together materials from nearly fifty American, Austrian, Belgian, British, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Slovak, and Swedish archives, Jonathan Singerton reconstructs the full sweep of relations between the nascent United States and one of the oldest European dynasties during and after the American Revolution.

"A microhistory in the form of a biography of Jane Welborn Spurgin, an outspoken supporter of the Revolution whose husband was a Tory who bore arms for the king during the American war. Her story illustrates the rifts and conflicts but also the opportunities the Revolutionary War created for Americans, male and female, as they fought for and thought through independence"--