Samuel K. Fisher

The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution (eBook, ePUB)

Diversity and Empire in the British Atlantic, 1688-1783

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Produktbeschreibung

How did an unlikely group of peoples--Irish-speaking Catholics, Scottish Highlanders, and American Indians--play an even unlikelier role in the origins of the American Revolution? Drawing on little-used sources in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution places these typically marginalized peoples in Ireland, Scotland, and North America at the center of a larger drama of imperial reform and revolution. Gaelic and Indian peoples experiencing colonization in the eighteenth-century British empire fought back by building relationships with the king and imperial officials. In doing so, 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. In fact, Britons had argued about these questions since the Glorious Revolution of 1688, when revolutionaries had dethroned James II as they accused him of plotting to employ savage Gaelic and Indian enemies in a tyrranical plot against liberty. This was the same argument the American revolutionaries--and their sympathizers in England, Scotland, and Ireland--used against George III. Ironically, however, it was Gaelic and Indian peoples, not kings, who had pushed the empire in inclusive directions. In doing so they pushed the American patriots towards revolution. This novel account argues that Americans' racial dilemmas were not new nor distinctively American but instead the awkward legacies of a more complex imperial history. By showcasing how Gaelic and Indian peoples challenged the British empire--and in the process convinced American colonists to leave it--Samuel K. Fisher offers a new way of understanding the American Revolution and its relevance for our own times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197555866
• Artikelnr.: 64303251

Autorenporträt

Samuel K. Fisher is Assistant Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the co-editor of Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Note on Translation and Terminology
* Introduction
* Part I: Exclusionary Constitution
* Chapter 1: The Unlikely Alliance: Origins of Inclusive Empire
* Chapter 2: Fit Instruments I: Origins of the Exclusionary Patriots
* Chapter 3: Lockhart's Question: Creating the Exclusionary
Constitution
* Part II: Atlantic '45
* Chapter 4: The French Connection: Resisting the Exclusionary
Constitution from Without
* Chapter 5: Imperial Go-Betweens: Resisting the Exclusionary
Constitution from Within
* Chapter 6: Atlantic '45: Breaking the Exclusionary Constitution
* Part III: Inclusive Empire
* Chapter 7: Reform: Reviving the Inclusive Empire
* Chapter 8: The Tender Father with Shit-Stained Britches:
Contradictions of the Inclusive Empire
* Chapter 9: Interest and Economy: Debating the Inclusive Empire
* Chapter 10: King George Will Have Us All: Making the Inclusive Empire
* Part IV: Exclusionary Patriots
* Chapter 11: Fit Instruments II: Return of the Exclusionary Patriots
* Chapter 12: Dilemmas of Dependence: Exclusion and Exceptionalism
* Epilogue
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index