An empire divided : the American Revolution and the British Caribbean / Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy.

By:

O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Jackson

Series: Early American studies | Early American studiesPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.Description: xvi, 357 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0812235584
9780812235586
0812217322
9780812217322

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

History.

Additional physical formats: Empire divided.DDC classification:

972.9/03 21

LOC classification:

F2131 .O74 2000

Other classification:

15.85
NK 3090
NN 7500
NO 2300
NQ 9410
NO 2350

Online resources:

Contents:

The Greater Antilles -- The Lesser Antilles -- Foundations of Loyalty -- British Sojourners -- Black Majorities -- The Sugar Islands -- Divergent Paths -- Sons of Liberty? -- Winning the Initiative -- The Imperial Civil War -- The Crisis of American Independence -- The Groans of the Plantations -- Rule Britannia -- The Division of British America -- The Other Road to Yorktown -- Conclusion: Revolutionary Legacy.

Summary: "A major contribution to the history of the American Revolution, An Empire Divided traces a split in the politics of the mainland and island colonies after the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765-66, when the colonists on the islands chose not to emulate the resistance of the patriots on the mainland. Once war came, it was increasingly unpopular in the British Caribbean; nevertheless, the white colonists cooperated with the British in defense of their islands. O'Shaughnessy decisively refutes the widespread belief that there was broad backing among the Caribbean colonists for the American Revolution and deftly reconstructs the history of how the island colonies followed an increasingly divergent course from the former colonies to the north."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-341) and index.

"A major contribution to the history of the American Revolution, An Empire Divided traces a split in the politics of the mainland and island colonies after the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765-66, when the colonists on the islands chose not to emulate the resistance of the patriots on the mainland. Once war came, it was increasingly unpopular in the British Caribbean; nevertheless, the white colonists cooperated with the British in defense of their islands. O'Shaughnessy decisively refutes the widespread belief that there was broad backing among the Caribbean colonists for the American Revolution and deftly reconstructs the history of how the island colonies followed an increasingly divergent course from the former colonies to the north."--Jacket.

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