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'Resisting Independence' maps the loyal British Atlantic's reaction to the American Revolution. Through close study of four important British Atlantic port cities - New York City; Kingston, Jamaica; Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Glasgow, Scotland - the book argues that the revolution helped trigger a new understanding of loyalty to the Crown and empire. The book reimagines loyalism as a shared transatlantic ideology, no less committed to ideas of liberty and freedom than the American cause and not limited to the inhabitants of the 13 American colonies. The book reminds readers that the American Revolution was as much a story of loyalty as it was of rebellion.

United States --- Great Britain --- History --- Colonies --- History. --- British Atlantic, American revolution, Revolutionary ideology, Loyalism, Imperial Crisis.

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"Mutiny on the Rising Sun recounts the origins, events, and eventual fate of the Rising Sun's final smuggling voyage in vivid detail. Starting from that horrible night in June 1743, it narrates a deeply human history of smuggling, providing an incredible story of those caught in the webs spun by illicit commerce. The case generated a rich documentary record that illuminates an international chocolate smuggling ring, the lives of the crew and mutineers, and the harrowing experience of the enslaved people trafficked by the Rising Sun. Smuggling stood at the center of the lives of everyone involved with the business of the schooner. Larger forces, such as imperial trade restrictions, created the conditions for smuggling, but individual actors, often driven by raw ambition and with little regard for the consequences of their actions, designed, refined, and perpetuated this illicit commerce. At once startling and captivating, Mutiny on the Rising Sun shows how illegal trade created demand for exotic products like chocolate, and how slavery and smuggling were integral to the development of American capitalism." -- "Mutiny on the Rising Sun is a deeply human history of smuggling that demonstrates how interconnected the future United States was with the wider world, how illegal trade created markets for exotic products like chocolate, and how slavery and smuggling were key factors in the development of American capitalism"--

Smuggling --- Slavery --- History --- Rising Sun (Schooner : Active 1743) --- United States. --- Amerindians. --- Anglo-Dutch Relations. --- Anomabu. --- Barbados. --- Boston. --- British Atlantic. --- Chocolate. --- Commerce. --- Criminal Justice. --- Early America. --- Gold Coast. --- Insurance. --- Memory. --- Merchants. --- Molasses Act. --- Mutiny. --- Navigation Acts. --- New England. --- Newark Jackson. --- Old North Church. --- Plantations. --- Race. --- Sailors. --- Slave Trade. --- Slavery. --- Smuggling. --- Suriname. --- War of Jenkin’s Ear. --- West Indies.

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This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America. Elliott identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires' processes of colonization, the character of their colonial societies, their distinctive styles of imperial government, and the independence movements mounted against them. Based on wide reading in the history of the two great Atlantic civilizations, the book sets the Spanish and British colonial empires in the context of their own times and offers us insights into aspects of this dual history that still influence the Americas.

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