A Different View: American Revolution

Someone suggested a more radical way to view the American Revolution, starting with the picture book Why War Is Never A Good Idea by Alice Walker. Other suggestions included:

• Natalie Bober's Countdown to Independence: A Revolution of Ideas In America and Her American Colonies: 1760-1776,
• Marc Aronson's The Real Revolution: The Global Story of American Independence, and
• Christopher Hille's The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution. (which kept me up late reading one night)
  

Here I was thinking that considering geography as a large force in revolution was different in our reading of John T. Cunningham's The Uncertain Revolution.

Of course Mark Kurlansky has a slightly different view in Salt: A World History! I have not (yet?) checked his Cod. I think my kids refer to it as "The World According to Cod". Both of those have a (adult?) chapter book and a picture book and will have a different slant than Hakim's The History of US.