The Americas in the Age of REV Format:Paperback a kind of secret

a kind of secret

Linked to kings by marriage

Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2013

and a vice president--all within little more than a decade

With only one hope of beating them

The Americas in the Age of REV Format:Paperback a kind of secretThis magisterial work is a comparative history of three important revolutions in the Americas: the American Revolution in 1776, the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony that became Haiti, and the prolonged Spanish American struggle for independence that ended a half century later. Lester Langley describes the movements and events that led to these wars of independence, explaining why revolution took one form in one place and a different form in