Freedom Round the Globe

Fascinating, mind-scrambling * The New Yorker *She casts her net wide … fluent and engaging … offers a decentered, kaleidoscopic view * New Statesman *Engaging … With Pearsall’s expert guidance, we meet revolutionaries and liberty lovers … in far-flung places … Pearsall’s book does so much to illuminate [American history] * The New York Times *Immersive … a roving narrative that ranges from European power politics to resistance movements of Indigenous and enslaved peoples … a remarkably clarifying picture of the revolutionary spirit that swept the world in the 1770s * Publishers Weekly *A revealing study of the global dimensions of America’s war for independence * Kirkus Reviews *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 Revolutionary SpringA stimulating account of a major episode in history that brings out its global impact – Jeremy Black, author of Crisis of EmpireA 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 The Killing AgeIncredible … 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 All That She CarriedWith 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 Frederick Douglass: Prophet of FreedomFreedom 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 The Rediscovery of America and National Book Award winnerIn 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 Empires, Nations and Families and Pulitzer Prize finalistA 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 Freedom’s DominionWeaving 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 The Other Slavery and National Book Award finalistA 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 Liberty’s Dawn

Sarah M.S. Pearsall

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.

Pearsall 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 and 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.

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