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Origins: Revolution and Empire: The British Perspective
Professor of history at the University of Virginia, Andrew O’Shaughnessy joins the symposium to discuss British policies toward America before the Revolution. Continuing the arguments he makes in two of his important publications; The Men Who Lost America and Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America's Early Independence, O'Shaughnessy will explore British policies in the context of empire and discuss why they often seem disjointed and unsystematic. This new lens for examining the colonial British empire helps us answer the question of whether the American Revolution was justified and whether the colony was run by tyranny or not.
*** Books will be available for purchase at Dock Street Theatre thanks to our onsite pop-up bookstore by Buxton Books. There will be a book signing following the program. ***
Featured Speaker: Andrew O’Shaughnessy
Andrew O'Shaughnessy is a Professor of History at the University of Virginia, where he served as Vice President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello from 2003 to 2022. He is the author of An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000); The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (Yale University Press, 2013), which received eight national awards including the George Washington Book Prize, the New York Historical Society American History Book Prize, and the Daughters of the American Revolution Excellence in American History Book Award; and The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson's Idea of a University (University of Virginia Press, 2021). A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is also co-editor of The European Friends of the American Revolution (2023).
Professor of history at the University of Virginia, Andrew O’Shaughnessy joins the symposium to discuss British policies toward America before the Revolution. Continuing the arguments he makes in two of his important publications; The Men Who Lost America and Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America's Early Independence, O'Shaughnessy will explore British policies in the context of empire and discuss why they often seem disjointed and unsystematic. This new lens for examining the colonial British empire helps us answer the question of whether the American Revolution was justified and whether the colony was run by tyranny or not.
*** Books will be available for purchase at Dock Street Theatre thanks to our onsite pop-up bookstore by Buxton Books. There will be a book signing following the program. ***
Featured Speaker: Andrew O’Shaughnessy
Andrew O'Shaughnessy is a Professor of History at the University of Virginia, where he served as Vice President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello from 2003 to 2022. He is the author of An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000); The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (Yale University Press, 2013), which received eight national awards including the George Washington Book Prize, the New York Historical Society American History Book Prize, and the Daughters of the American Revolution Excellence in American History Book Award; and The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson's Idea of a University (University of Virginia Press, 2021). A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is also co-editor of The European Friends of the American Revolution (2023).
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