The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution diversity and empire in the British Atlantic, 1688-1783
The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution offers a new way of understanding the American Revolution and the relationship between diversity and revolution in the British empire. Drawing on little-used sources in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, the book shows how people experiencing coloniza...
| Main Author: | Fisher, Samuel K., |
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| Other Authors: | Oxford Scholarship Online. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Physical Description: |
335 pages : illustrations(black and white). |
| Series: |
Oxford Academic.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents: Acknowledgments - Note on Terminology and Translation - Introduction - Part IExclusionary Constitution - 1. The Unlikely Alliance: Origins of the Inclusive Empire - 2. Fit Instruments I: Origins of the Exclusionary Patriots - 3. Lockhart's Question: Creating the Exclusionary Constitution - Part IIAtlantic '45 - 4. The French Connection: Resisting the Exclusionary Constitution from Without - 5. Imperial Go-Betweens: Resisting the Exclusionary Constitution from Within - 6. Atlantic '45: Breaking the Exclusionary Constitution - Part IIIInclusive Empire - 7. Reform: Reviving the Inclusive Empire - 8. A Tender Father with Fouled Britches: War and the Contradictions of Inclusive Empire - 9. Interest and Economy: Debating the Inclusive Empire - 10. King George Will Have Us All: Making the Inclusive Empire - Part IVExclusionary Patriots - 11. Fit Instruments II: Return of the Exclusionary Patriots - 12. Dilemmas of Dependence: Exclusion and Exceptionalism - Epilogue - Notes - Bibliography - Index.