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Author | : Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 876 |
Release | : 2013-06-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300195249 |
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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 | : John Huddlestone Wynne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1770 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Huddlestone Wynne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1770 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Huddlestone Wynne |
Publisher | : Nabu Press |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781293164501 |
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Author | : John Huddlestone Wynne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2020-04-22 |
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ISBN | : 9780461785852 |
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Author | : John Huddlestone Wynne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1770 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : John Huddlestone Wynne |
Publisher | : Hansebooks |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-11-30 |
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ISBN | : 9783348110938 |
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A General History of the British Empire in America - Containing an historical, political, and commercial view of the English settlements - Volume II is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1770. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author | : Kathleen Burk |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 844 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802144294 |
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A history of the relationship between Great Britain and the United States ranges from the establishment of the first English colony in the New World to the present day, examining both nations in terms of what connected them and what drove them apart.
Author | : John Huddlestone Wynne |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1770 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : P. J. Marshall |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2001-08-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521002547 |
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Up to World War II and beyond, the British ruled over a vast empire. Modern western attitudes towards the imperial past tend either towards nostalgia for British power or revulsion at what seem to be the abuses of that power. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire adopts neither of these approaches. It aims to create historical understanding about the British empire on the assumption that such understanding is important for any informed appreciation of the modern world. Through striking illustration and a text written by leading experts, this book examines the experience of colonialism in North America, India, Africa, Australia, and the Caribbean, as well as the impact of the empire on Britain itself. Emphasis is placed on social and cultural history, including slavery, trade, religion, art, and the movement of ideas. How did the British rule their empire? Who benefited economically from the empire? And who lost?