Author: Matthew Robinson-Morris Baron RokebyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Considerations on the Measures Carrying on with Respect to the British Colonies in North America ...
Author: Matthew Robinson-Morris Baron RokebyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Considerations on the Measures Carrying on with Respect to the British Colonies in North America
Author: Matthew Robinson-Morris RokebyPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337994129
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Considerations on the Measures Carrying on with Respect to the British Colonies in North America
Author: Matthew Robinson-Morris Baron RokebyPublisher: London : Printed for R. Baldwin ... [and 4 others
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Considerations on the Measures Carrying on with Respect to the British Colonies in North America
Author: Matthew Robinson-Morris Baron RokebyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Catalogue of the New York State Library
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
Catalogue of the New York State Library, 1855
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Catalogue. General library
Author: New York state, librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Late Joseph J. Cooke
Author: Joseph Jesse CookePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
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.
Author: Joel Munsell