Beyond 1776: Globalizing the Cultures of the American Revolution by Maria O’Malley, Denys Van Renen (review)

[...]there is very little that is American about Beyond 1776, so nonspecialists may wish to brush up on US history before engaging with this book. [...]they are attentive to issues of scale and the dialectic between the local and the global. [...]US independence provided inspiration for the Netherlands’ Patriot Revolution of the 1780s and Batavian Revolution of the 1790s. The authors’ attention to local events, specific literary works, and individuals keeps the specific relevant within an international context. [...]the editors are careful to include analyses of race and gender, and they succeed in directing readers to places like St. Eustatius, Australia, and China, places usually ignored by histories of the Revolution.