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 : diversity and empire in the British Atlantic, 1688-1783

Diversity and empire in the British Atlantic, 1688-1783

New York : Oxford University Press, 2022.

xv, 319 p. : ill., map, port. ; 25 cm.

973.311 F536 2022

(OCoLC)1338670209

"How did an unlikely group of peoples--Irish-speaking Catholics, Scottish Highlanders, and American Indians--play an even unlikelier role in the origins of the American Revolution? ...Gaelic and Indian peoples experiencing colonization in the eighteenth-century British empire fought back by building relationships with the king and imperial officials. In doing so, they created a more inclusive empire and triggered conflict between the imperial state and formerly privileged provincial Britons: Irish Protestants, Scottish whigs, and American colonists. The American Revolution was only one aspect of this larger conflict between inclusive empire and the exclusionary patriots within the British empire ...This novel account argues that Americans' racial dilemmas were not new nor distinctively American but instead the awkward legacies of a more complex imperial history ...--Book jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-312) and index.
L2022M107

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