Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New YorkMacmillan, 2003 - 464 páginas Years of neglect in the mother country had allowed America's fledgling democracy to gain power, but by 1760 America had become the biggest and fastest-growing part of the British economy, and Britain required tribute. When the revolution came to New York City, it tore apart a community that was already riven by deep-seated familial, political, religious, and economic antagonisms. Focusing on a number of individuals, Divided Loyalties describes their response to increasingly drastic actions taken in London by a succession of the king's ministers, which finally forced people to take sides and decide whether they would continue their loyalty to Great Britain or cast their lot with the American insurgents. Using fascinating detail to draw us into history's narrative, Richard M. Ketchum explains why men with similar life experiences-even members of the same family-chose different sides when the war erupted. |
Contenido
Prologue | 1 |
A Most Splendid Town | 5 |
Salutary Neglect | 23 |
Year of Wonders | 35 |
Join or Die | 49 |
GeorgeBe a King | 62 |
Gentle Shepherd | 77 |
A Stamp Tax | 91 |
Battle of Golden Hill | 220 |
Coercive Measures | 233 |
An Act of Tyranny | 254 |
The Mob Begin to Think | 268 |
Blows Must Decide | 279 |
Affairs Grow Serious | 290 |
The Sword Is Drawn | 302 |
You Must Now Declare | 316 |
Slavery Fenced Us In | 107 |
Petitions and a Dagger | 119 |
The City in Perfect Anarchy | 134 |
Madness and Folly | 145 |
An Act to Repeal an Act | 156 |
An Unsupportable Burden | 172 |
A Tax on Tea | 186 |
Incentive to Rebellion | 199 |
The Wilkes of America | 209 |
The Proposition Is Peace | 329 |
Full Exertion of Great Force | 342 |
Epilogue | 359 |
Principal Characters | 367 |
Bibliography | 383 |
Source Notes | 395 |
Acknowledgments | 420 |
Index | 423 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York Richard M. Ketchum Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York Richard M. Ketchum Vista previa limitada - 2014 |
Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York Richard M. Ketchum Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |
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