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Category : Devon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Annals of the Militia: Being the Records of the South Devon Regiment
Author: The Persistence of Empire
Author: Eliga H. GouldPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807899879
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britain's most humiliating defeat as an imperial power. In this lively, concise book, Eliga Gould examines an important yet surprisingly understudied aspect of the conflict: the British public's predominantly loyal response to its government's actions in North America. Gould attributes British support for George III's American policies to a combination of factors, including growing isolationism in regard to the European continent and a burgeoning sense of the colonies as integral parts of a greater British nation. Most important, he argues, the British public accepted such ill-conceived projects as the Stamp Act because theirs was a sedentary, "armchair" patriotism based on paying others to fight their battles for them. This system of military finance made Parliament's attempt to tax the American colonists look unexceptional to most Britons and left the metropolitan public free to embrace imperial projects of all sorts--including those that ultimately drove the colonists to rebel. Drawing on nearly one thousand political pamphlets as well as on broadsides, private memoirs, and popular cartoons, Gould offers revealing insights into eighteenth-century British political culture and a refreshing account of what the Revolution meant to people on both sides of the Atlantic.
Empire and Nation
Author: Eliga H. GouldPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421418428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Letters on the American Revolution, 1774-1776
Author: Margaret Wheeler WillardPublisher:
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Category : Letters
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Letters to a Young Gentleman Commencing His Education
Author: Noah WebsterPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Papers and Records
Author: Lennox and Addington Historical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Lennox and Addington (Ont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Journal of Major George Washington
Author: George WashingtonPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813904023
Category : Washington's Expedition to the Ohio, 1st, 1753-1754
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
An account of his first official mission, made as emissary from the Governor of Virginia to the commandant of the French forces on the Ohio, October, 1753-January, 1754.
American Archives
Author: Peter ForcePublisher:
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Category : Colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
History of the Settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario)
Author: William CanniffPublisher:
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Category : Kingston (Ont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
The London Gazette
Author: Great BritainPublisher:
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Category : Gazettes
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
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