How the American Revolution was GLOBAL, w/ Sarah Pearsall
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How the American Revolution was GLOBAL, w/ Sarah Pearsall
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In this compelling episode, we sit down with award-winning historian Sarah M. S. Pearsall to explore her groundbreaking new book, Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution.
As we approach the 250th anniversary of 1776, Pearsall challenges the traditional narrative that the American Revolution was a uniquely American story driven solely by the Founding Fathers. Instead, she reveals it as a truly global event — a worldwide surge of resistance against British imperial power that touched India, West Africa, China, the West Indies, Europe, and beyond.
We discuss how tax protests in Kolkata echoed in Boston, how enslaved people and Indigenous nations reshaped ideas of liberty, the surprising role of Edinburgh philosophers and German boy soldiers, and why the 13 colonies represented less than half of Britain's empire at the time.
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