Can't say. I keep running out of time on your app to listen to the book. I didn't get a chance to hear it so I can't really comment except to say how much I don't like this Netgalley app.

I want to thank Netgalley and the author for gifting me the audio version. I have always been fascinated with history and I am starting to get into American history etc. This was really great and informative! Highly recommend for all history buffs out there.

*received for free from netgalley for honest review* So i can see how people would find this long and boring but it turned out to be more interesting than i thought!

I received an audio ARC of this book through NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased opinion.

<i>The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution</i> is a thoroughly detailed account of how the politics of Europe in the century leading up to the American Revolution affected the British-American colonists, tracing their path from thinking of themselves as part of a British worldview to coming to understand themselves as a separate entity.

This is definitely not a beginner's guide to America becoming its own country; it would be a great college textbook. I really enjoyed Liam Gerrard's narration. I learned a lot about both European and American history by listening to it. History buffs will enjoy this book!

A very detailed, scholarly, but still accessible discussion of how Europe and the European balance of power was important to the colonies in the years leading up to the American Revolution. I haven't read the other side of the debate, so I'm not qualified to weigh in on whether the colonists conceived of themselves as purely British, purely British Americans or, as is argued here, British citizens active inside the context of larger European politics and a European identity (characterized somewhat reductionstically as an isolationist Tory blue water navy policy versus an interventionist, whiggish European land army policy). That said, the wealth of examples and arguments really gave me a new appreciation of how the colonists thought of European events in the centuries leading up to rebellion and gave me an entirely new perspective on the cultural and intellectual currents in the colonies. Really interesting work.

Thank you to netgalley.co.uk for giving me a free copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.

This was an intimidating book, there is so much information crammed into it. But I think the author did a brilliant job of explaining everything so it's easy to understand.
There is so much detail however, I felt I was able to catch up easily with the author. It managed to take a lot of what I had studied in different modules throughout my history career and combine it into one book in order to create this one big timeline throughout the history of Europe and its influences on the American revolution. A long book but I enjoyed listening to it.

This is the most comprehensive history of the American Revolution I have ever read. Let me warn you, this book is written as the authoritative detail of the effects the European political systems and their wars and conflicts upon those living in America, but it is written for the history intellectual.

Robinson covers the religious freedom that everyone else does, but them goes on to the differences between the ethnic backgrounds of the settlers and their environs in America as well os what is occurring in their home country or their family's country of origin. The Dutch wars affected the New York and Pennsylvania settlers more than others, the Seven Years War, know here as the French and Indian War was more about the conflict between the French and English ethnic communities. He goes into too much detail to go through with a summary, but suffice it to say, he has given me a lot of knowledge which I had never been exposed to!