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¬The¬ Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution: diversity and empire in the British Atlantic, 1688-1783
Kategorie	Beschreibung
037b	eng
087q	978-0-19-755584-2
100	Fisher, Samuel K. ¬[VerfasserIn]¬
331	¬The¬ Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution
335	diversity and empire in the British Atlantic, 1688-1783
410	New York, NY
412	Oxford University Press
425	2022
425a	2022
433	335 pages : illustrations(black and white)
451b	Oxford scholarship online
501	Includes Includes bibliographical references and index
527	Erscheint auch als (Druck-Ausgabe)ISBN: 978-0-19-755584-2
540a	ISBN 978-0-19-755587-3 electronic book
700b	\|980
750	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 colonization in the eighteenth-century British empire-Irish-speaking Catholics, Scottish Highlanders, and Indigenous nations of North America-fought back by building relationships with the king and imperial officials. In the process, 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. By putting typically excluded Gaelic and Indian voices at the center of the story and taking a comparative approach that includes Scotland and Ireland as well as North America, the book offers a new account of how empires functioned in the eighteenth century, how they fell apart, and how questions of diversity explain both. In the process it uncovers the British, imperial origins of Americans' racial dilemmas, showing how these were not new or uniquely American but instead the awkward legacies of a more complex imperial history.
012	1820358399
081	¬The¬ Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution
100	E-Book Oxford EBS
125a	Elektronischer Volltext - Campuslizenz
655e	$uhttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197555842.001.0001