Empire Divided The American Revolution and the British Caribbean

Name: Empire Divided The American Revolution and the British Caribbean
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ISBN: 9780812217322

ISBN-10: 0812217322

ISBN-13: 9780812217322

Edition: 2000

Authors: Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy

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There were 26--not 13--British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean--Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and Tobago, St. Vincent; and Dominica--were among the wealthiest. These island colonies were closely related to the mainland by social ties and tightly connected by trade. In a period when most British colonists in North America lived less than 200 miles inland and the major cities were all situated along the coast, the ocean often acted as a highway between islands and mainland rather than a barrier. The plantation system of the islands was so similar to that of the southern mainland colonies that these regions had more in common with…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 7/18/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Maps


The Greater Antilles


The Lesser Antilles



Foundations of Loyalty



British Sojourners



Black Majorities



The Sugar Islands



Divergent Paths



Sons of Liberty?



Winning the Initiative



The Imperial Civil War



The Crisis of American Independence



The Groans of the Plantations



Rule Britannia



The Division of British America



The Other Road to Yorktown


Conclusion: Revolutionary Legacy


List of Abbreviations


Notes


Select Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index