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Title: Good Overview, But Dry as Parchment
Review: "A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution" is a succinct but lifeless chronicle of the diplomatic maneuvering around the American Revolution. The book's great virtue is the way it situates the Revolution in the context of European balance of power politics -- it stresses the important (yet often forgotten) point that the Revolution was only one front in a global war between Great Britain and France, Spain, and the Netherlands. Unfortunately, the book is also dry as dust. The author makes no attempt to enliven his material with biographical anecdotes, cultural observations, or wit. He also makes no attempt to analyze broader political, economic, or ideological trends. The upshot: the book would make an excellent college text, but few general readers would enjoy it. Too bad.
