Abstract
Empires of the American Revolution : The Perspectives of Edward Gibbon in 1776. In February of 1776, Edward Gibbon was a member of Parliament as well as the author of what we know as the first of six volumes of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. This essay examines how the first volume of the Decline may throw light on Gibbon’s sense of the growing problems between Great Britain and its American colonies. The essay suggests that the emerging idea of ‘empire ’ was as much or even more associated with land masses and in central Europe and North America than with the commercial expansion of Britain.
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