Revolution Against Empire

Revolution Against Empire
Author :
Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 392
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780300227659
ISBN-13 : 0300227655
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Revolution Against Empire by : Justin du Rivage

Download or read book Revolution Against Empire written by Justin du Rivage and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representation Revolution Against Empire sets the story of American independence within a long and fierce clash over the political and economic future of the British Empire. Justin du Rivage traces this decades-long debate, which pitted neighbors and countrymen against one another, from the War of Austrian Succession to the end of the American Revolution. As people from Boston to Bengal grappled with the growing burdens of imperial rivalry and fantastically expensive warfare, some argued that austerity and new colonial revenue were urgently needed to rescue Britain from unsustainable taxes and debts. Others insisted that Britain ought to treat its colonies as relative equals and promote their prosperity. Drawing from archival research in the United States, Britain, and France, this book shows how disputes over taxation, public debt, and inequality sparked the American Revolution—and reshaped the British Empire.


Revolution Against Empire Related Books

Revolution Against Empire
Language: en
Pages: 392
Authors: Justin du Rivage
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-27 - Publisher: Yale University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representation Revolution Against Empire sets
Whig Interpretation of History
Language: en
Pages: 148
Authors: Herbert Butterfield
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1965 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Five essays on the tendency of modern historians to update other eras and on the need to recapture the concrete life of the past.
The Tory View of Landscape
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Nigel Everett
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, it seemed to many that England was being transformed by various kinds of 'improvements' in agriculture and ind
Cato's Letters
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: John Trenchard
Categories: Church and state
Type: BOOK - Published: 1748 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Training minds for the war of ideas
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Clarisse Berthezène
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-06-04 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book examines attempts by the Conservative party in the interwar years to capture the ‘brains’ of the new electorate and create a counter-culture to wh