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...
The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britain's most humiliating defeat as an imperial power. In this liv...
The Revolution s aspiration was summed up by the phrase life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet the American founding was also a bid for inclusion in the community of nations. According to Eliga Gould, America aspired to diplomatic recognition under international law and the authority to become an Atlantic colonizing power itself.
The Revolution s aspiration was summed up by the phrase life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet the American founding was also a bid for incl...
The essays in Empire and Nation challenge facile assumptions about the -exceptional- character of the republic's founding moment, even as they invite readers to think anew about the complex ways in which the Revolution reshaped both American society and the Atlantic world.
How did events and ideas from elsewhere in the British empire influence development in the thirteen American colonies? And what was the effect of the American Revolution on the wider Atlantic world? In Empire and Nation, leading historians reconsider the American Revolution as a transnational event, with...
The essays in Empire and Nation challenge facile assumptions about the -exceptional- character of the republic's founding moment, even as th...
