"O'Shaughnessy's excellent, clearly written book is an important contribution to Caribbean and US history. He successfully explains why the Caribbean colonists, far from supporting the American Revolution, preferred to keep the British empire intact. . . . Highly recommended."—Choice
List of Illustrations
Preface
Maps: The Greater Antilles
Maps: The Lesser Antilles
PT. I. FOUNDATIONS OF LOYALTY
1. British Sojourners
2. Black Majorities
3. The Sugar Islands
PT. II. DIVERGENT PATHS
4. Sons of Liberty?
5. Winning the Initiative
PT. III. THE IMPERIAL CIVIL WAR
6. The Crisis of American Independence
7. The Groans of the Plantations
8. Rule Britannia
PT. IV. THE DIVISION OF BRITISH AMERICA
9. The Other Road to Yorktown
Conclusion: Revolutionary Legacy
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
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An Empire Divided von Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy - mit der ISBN: 9780812293395
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Barbados; Black studies; British West Indies; British colonies; Dominica; Greater Lesser Antilles; Grenada; Jamaica; Latin American Caribbean; Leeward Islands; St. Vincent; Tobago; U.S. US United States America; sugar plantations; war independence, Online-Buchhandlung
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