Republic and Empire - Crisis, Revolution, and America's Early Independence

A fresh look at the American Revolution as a major global eventAt the time of the American Revolution (1765-83), the British Empire had colonies in India, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, Canada, Ireland, and Gibraltar. The thirteen rebellious American colonies accounted for half of the total number of provinces in the British world in 1776. What of the loyal half? Why did some of Britain's subjects feel so aggrieved that they wanted to establish a new system of government, while others did not rebel? In this authoritative history, Trevor Burnard and Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy show that understanding the long-term causes of the American Revolution requires a global view.As much as it was an event in the history of the United States, the American Revolution was an imperial event produced by the upheavals of managing a far-flung set of imperial possessions during a turbulent period of reform. By looking beyond the familiar borders of the Revolution and considering colonies that did not rebel-Quebec, Nova Scotia, Bermuda, India, the British Caribbean, Senegal, and Ireland-Burnard and O'Shaughnessy go beyond the republican, liberal, and democratic aspects of the emerging American nation, providing a broader history that transcends what we think we know about the Revolution.

About the author

Trevor Burnard (1960–2024) was Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull and director of the Wilberforce Institute. He was the author of numerous books on Caribbean plantation history and imperial history and served as editor of the Oxford Bibliography Online in Atlantic History. Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy is professor of history at the University of Virginia. His books include An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean and the prizewinning The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire.

Product details

• Authors: Trevor Burnard, Trevor O''shaughnessy Burnard, Burnard Trevor, Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy, O'Shaughnessy Andrew Jackson
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.09.2025
• EAN: 9780300280180
• ISBN: 978-0-300-28018-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; History, European History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, 1714–1837 (Georgian period), c 1765 to 1783 (American Revolutionary period), c 1783 to c 1800 (American Federalist era)