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Among the Powers of the Earth

The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire

Eliga H. Gould

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$52.00 • £41.95 • €47.00

ISBN 9780674046085

Publication Date: 03/19/2012

344 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Eliga H. Gould is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire.

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Read an article by Eliga Gould in Foreign Policy on how the British press interpreted and reported the events of the American Revolution
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Co-Winner, 2012 SHEAR Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

Finalist, 2013 George Washington Prize, C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens

A Library Journal Best Book of 2012

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