Guy Chet

I am an early-modern historian (17th-18th century), teaching classes on Revolutionary America, Atlantic piracy, and military history. My first book (Conquering the American Wilderness) is a study of English and American military culture. Addressing forces of Americanization and Anglicization in American military history, it points to continuity between the Old World and the New. This theme of transatlantic cultural cohesion is at the heart of my second book, on Atlantic piracy and illegal trade (The Ocean is a Wilderness) and my third book, on the origins, nature, and ends of the American Revolution (The Colonists’ American Revolution). Although a specialist in early-modern history, my first love was and still is Roman history. My latest book (Endless Manpower: The Key to Rome's Military Success, from the Punic Wars to the Jewish Wars) is a study of Rome's expansion to the Near East.