John Donoghue, Fire under the Ashes: An Atlantic History of the English Revolution. Maggi M. Morehouse and Zoe Trodd, eds. Civil War America: A Social and Cultural History

John Donoghue’s excellent book is transatlantic history at its best: The author gives a gripping account of the political, economic, social, and religious dimensions of the English Revolution in virtually all parts of the English Atlantic world between c. 1619 and 1661. Donoghue, associate professor of history at Loyola University in Chicago, takes us on a journey from Old to New England, various Caribbean archipelagos, West Africa, and back again. Building on transatlantic studies of the rev...