Brings together Lester D. Langley's personal and professional link to the long American Revolution in a narrative that spans more than 150 years and places the Revolution in multiple contexts - from the local to the transatlantic and hemispheric and from racial and gendered to political, social, economic, and cultural perspectives.

LESTER D. LANGLEY is a research professor of history emeritus at the University of Georgia. He is the author of The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 and America and the Americas: The United States in the Western Hemisphere (Georgia). He is also the general editor of the United States and the Americas series, published by the University of Georgia Press.