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Description'Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched. All the more urgent at the present time' BART VAN ES ReviewsEARLY PRAISE FOR THIS LAND OF PROMISE: 'A terrific, clear-eyed and balanced history that cuts through today's toxic debates... Lockwood writes a vivid, fluent prose and moves all these remarkable tales along at a cracking pace' Daily Telegraph, ***** review 'Compelling and humane' Independent, Top Reads for June PRAISE FOR LOCKWOOD'S PREVIOUS BOOKS: 'Matthew Lockwood is a master storyteller, deftly showcasing the lives of ordinary people alongside the impact of historical ideas and events ... enthralling, provocative, and wonderfully enlightening' Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana 'Lockwood ... has a keen eye for a good yarn, and there are enthralling glimpses here of individual lives buffeted by the American Revolution' Alex von Tunzelmann, New York Times Book Review 'A breakthrough popular history, written with a novelist's eye for detail and atmosphere' Publishers Weekly 'A stunning narrative' Stella Tillyard, author of Aristocrats
Author Biography: Matthew Lockwood is the author of The Conquest of Death: Violence and the Birth of the Modern English State (Yale, 2017) and To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe (Yale, 2019). He received his PhD from Yale University in 2014, where his dissertation won the Hans Gatzke Prize for outstanding dissertation in European history. He held posts at the Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions and at the University of Warwick before moving to the University of Alabama where he is currently Assistant Professor of History. |