Author | Kathleen DuVal |
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Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | July 7, 2015 |
Pages | 464 |
ISBN | 9780812981209 |
973.3 |
Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution is a 2015 nonfiction book by American historian Kathleen DuVal. Focusing on the effects of the American Revolution on the frontiers of Spanish Louisiana and British West Florida, Independence Lost incorporates biographies of individual historical figures alongside more general analysis of the Gulf Coast during the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Background
Kathleen DuVal is a professor of early American history at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with a primary focus on the societal positions and interactions of men and women from different racial backgrounds during the history of the broader colonial period and early United States.[1] Her first book, The Native Ground is a broad colonial history of the Arkansas River basin, with a focus on the interactions between native nations and various colonial powers.[2] Her 2009 follow-up work, Interpreting a Continent follows a similar theme, drawing on a range of colonial North American sources from different historical backgrounds, in the form of a compilation of historical documents from various eras and nationalities.[3]
The historiography of the American Revolution and American studies more broadly underwent a "transnational turn" beginning in the 1990s and continuing into the 2020s, shifting the study of the United States' social and political history to its place within a broader international context.[4][5] The transnational turn forms a dominant motif of DuVal's historiographical work, as well as the work of her mentor Alan Taylor.[6][7]
Synopsis
Reception
Academic reviewers praised the book's focus on the Gulf Coast region, moving away from traditional American Revolution histories' exclusive focus on the Thirteen Colonies themselves, while also connecting the region to the broader political and social environment of North America.[8][9]
References
Citations
- ^ "Kathleen DuVal". UNC College of Arts and Science: History. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
- ^ Nicholas, Mark A. (Fall 2008). "Review of The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent". Journal of the Early Republic. 28 (3): 477–481 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Madar, Allison N. (May 2010). "Book Notes". The Journal of Southern History. 76 (2): 516 – via JSTOR.
- ^ McConnville 2019, pp. 539–540.
- ^ Durán 2020, p. 140.
- ^ Piker, Joshua (June 2007). "Review of The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent". The American Historical Review. 112 (3).
- ^ McConnville 2019, p. 541.
- ^ Romney, Susannah Shaw (Summer 2016). "Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution. By Kathleen DuVal". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 75 (2): 165–167 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Starr, J. Barton (Winter 2016). "Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 94 (3): 532–534 – via JSTOR.
Bibliography
- Durán, Isabel (December 2020). "What Is the Transnational Turn in American Literary Studies? A Critical Overview". Atlantis. 42 (2): 140–141 – via JSTOR.
- McConnville, Brendan (Fall 2019). "Going Continental? Romantic Transnationalism and Contemporary Interpretation of the American Revolution". Journal of the Early Republic. 39 (3).
Useful Sources
- https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/books/review/independence-lost-by-kathleen-duval.html
- Romney, Susanah Shaw. The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 75, no. 2 (2016): 165–67. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26281873.
- Starr, J. Barton. The Florida Historical Quarterly 94, no. 3 (2016): 532–34. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24769285.
- Review of Introduction: Continental History and the American Revolution in DuVal and Taylor, by Kathleen DuVal and Alan Taylor. Journal of the Early Republic 39, no. 3 (2019): 537–38. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26905472.
- James F. Brooks. Continental Shifts, Review of Books by Kathleen DuVal, Elizabeth A. Fenn, Michael A. McDonnell, and Claudio Saunt. The William and Mary Quarterly 74, no. 3 (2017): 533–41. https://doi.org/10.5309/willmaryquar.74.3.0533.