The British Empire in America
Author | : Mr. Oldmixon (John) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1741 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mr. Oldmixon (John) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1741 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 876 |
Release | : 2013-06-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300195249 |
Questioning popular belief, a historian and re-examines what exactly led to the British Empire’s loss of the American Revolution. The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O’Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory. In interlinked biographical chapters, the author follows the course of the war from the perspectives of King George III, Prime Minister Lord North, military leaders including General Burgoyne, the Earl of Sandwich, and others who, for the most part, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were frequent, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling political complexities at home, combined with the fervency of the fighting Americans, proved fatal to the British war effort. The book concludes with a penetrating assessment of the years after Yorktown, when the British achieved victories against the French and Spanish, thereby keeping intact what remained of the British Empire. “A remarkable book about an important but curiously underappreciated subject: the British side of the American Revolution. With meticulous scholarship and an eloquent writing style, O'Shaughnessy gives us a fresh and compelling view of a critical aspect of the struggle that changed the world.”—Jon Meacham, author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Author | : Steven Sarson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-06-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1000161897 |
This first part, volume 2 of an eight-volume reset edition, traces the evolution of imperial and colonial ideologies during the British colonization of America. It covers the period from the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1607 to 1783.
Author | : Mr. Oldmixon (John) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1708 |
Genre | : Atlantic Provinces |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Huddlestone Wynne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1770 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Oldmixon |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2016-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781334222542 |
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Author | : Jeremy Black |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2008-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1441144692 |
Britain and the USA have helped define much of world history in recent centuries, and the relationship between the two is crucial to this history. This book focuses on a key period in their relationship that moulded the character of the British Empire, the USA and the way the two have interacted since. The rise and crises of empires will always fascinate the observer because in their fate we see much of human history. Certainly the struggle for empire in the 18th Century was key to the fate of North America. British victory followed by the American Revolution helped to define the modern world. The European nations of Britain, France and Spain were eager for predominance and the trappings of trade, land and prestige. Within North America, there were the local agents of these powers and their subjects, who in turn held their own interests and views; whilst the Native Americans were more than simply the passive victims of European expansion. This fascinating and complex story is told by Black with narrative drive and scholarly acumen.
Author | : John Oldmixon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1741 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : H. Popple |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 5872324731 |
Author | : Robert W. Tucker |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801827808 |
"This book was presented in part as the 1981 Jefferson Memorial Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, May 19-21, 1981"--T.p. verso.