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Sarah M.S. Pearsall is Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University; she previously taught for nearly a decade at Cambridge University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Distinguished Fellow in the American Revolution at the Eccles Institute, British Library. She holds degrees from Yale, Cambridge, and Harvard. Her first book, Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century, received the Women's History Network Prize. Her second book, Polygamy: An Early American History, received multiple commendations/awards from the Organization for American Historians and the Western History Association. Her scholarship has been supported by the British Academy and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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 <i>Revolutionary Spring</i> A stimulating account of a major episode in history that brings out its global impact -- Jeremy Black, author of <i>Crisis of Empire</i> 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 <i>The Killing Age</i> 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 <i>All That She Carried</i> 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 <i>Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom</i> 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 <i>The Rediscovery of America</i> 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 <i>Empires, Nations and Families</i> 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 <i>Freedom’s Dominion</i> 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 <i>The Other Slavery</i> and National Book Award finalist A revealing study of the global dimensions of America’s war for independence * Kirkus Reviews * 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 <i>Liberty's Dawn</i>
