{"product_id":"the-gaelic-and-indian-origins-of-the-american-revolution-diversity-and-empire-in-the-british-atlantic-1688-1783-hardcover","title":"The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution: Diversity and Empire in the British Atlantic, 1688-1783 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSamuel K. Fisher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on little-used sources in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, \u003cem\u003eThe Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution \u003c\/em\u003eplaces 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSamuel K. Fisher\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eBone and Marrow\/Cnámh agus Smior: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.15 x 9.38 x 6.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 26, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51783341637920,"sku":"9780197555842","price":83.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b6299eb4a05cceece33319e160e004ee.webp?v=1780584753","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-gaelic-and-indian-origins-of-the-american-revolution-diversity-and-empire-in-the-british-atlantic-1688-1783-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}