A bold new account of the Age of Revolution, one of the most complex and vast transformations in human history. The Age of Atlantic Revolution was a defining moment in western history. Our understanding of rights, of what makes the individual an in...

Patrick Griffin chronicles the attempts of brothers Charles and George Townshend to control the forces of history in the heady days after Britain's mythic victory over France in the mid-eighteenth century, and the historic and unintended consequences...