Revolution 250 Podcast - The American Revolution and the Fate of the World with Richard Bell

Description

Join host Professor Robert Allison for a fascinating conversation with historian Richard Bell, author of The American Revolution and the Fate of the World. Together they will explore how the struggle for American independence reverberated far beyond the thirteen colonies—reshaping politics, empires, and ideas of liberty around the globe. Bell reveals how revolutionaries from Boston to Bengal, Paris to Port-au-Prince, drew inspiration and warning from the events of 1776, and how the American Revolution’s legacy became a test case for freedom in an age of empire. This episode connects the local to the global, asking what the Revolution truly meant for the fate of the world.