{"product_id":"the-creation-of-america-through-revolution-to-empire-hardback-9780521662550","title":"The Creation of America; Through Revolution to Empire (Hardback) 9780521662550","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Creation of America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThrough Revolution to Empire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis alternative history of the American Revolution, first published in 2000, shows the colonists as empire-building conquerors rather than democratic revolutionaries.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFrancis Jennings (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521662550, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 August 2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e354 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.69 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"a remarkable set of very engaging stories...Founding Brothers is a wonderful book, one of the best collections of essays on the Founders ever written.\"   N.Y. Review of Books March 01\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn the standard presentation of the American Revolution, a ragtag assortment of revolutionaries, inspired by ideals of liberty and justice, throw off the yoke of the British empire and bring democracy to the New World. In place of this fairy tale, Francis Jennings presents a realistic alternative: a privileged elite, dreaming of empire, clone their own empire from the British. This book, first published in 2000, shows that the colonists intended from the first to conquer American Indians. Though subordinate to the British crown, the colonists ruled over beaten native peoples. Some colonists bought Africans as slaves and rigidly ruled over them, and the colonists invented racial gradation to justify conquests and oppression. Jennings reveals as war propaganda the revolutionary rhetoric about liberty and virtue. Including the whole population in this meticulously documented history, Jennings provides an eloquent explanation for a host of anomalies, ambiguities, and iniquities that have followed in the American Revolution's wake.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. England Extends Conquests to North America: 1. Preface\u003cbr\u003e 2. Origins\u003cbr\u003e 3. Embryonic empires\u003cbr\u003e 4. Dependencies: Indians, The West\u003cbr\u003e 5. Colonial variety I: Virginia\u003cbr\u003e 6. Colonial variety II: New England\u003cbr\u003e 7. Colonial variety III: New York\u003cbr\u003e 8. Colonial variety IV: Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e 9. Colonial variety V: South Carolina\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Frictions Arise Within The Empire: 10. 'Salutary neglect'\u003cbr\u003e 11. Royal prerogative in America\u003cbr\u003e 12. War in principle\u003cbr\u003e 13. Irritants\u003cbr\u003e 14. At the core\u003cbr\u003e 15. George III\u003cbr\u003e 16. Reactions becoming revolution\u003cbr\u003e 17. A variation on the theme of liberty\u003cbr\u003e 18. Repression and resistance\u003cbr\u003e 19. A battle for bishops\u003cbr\u003e Part III. An American Clone Breaks Off:  20. Imperial and colonial frontiers\u003cbr\u003e 21. Changing sides\u003cbr\u003e 22. Defiance and crackdown\u003cbr\u003e 23. Uniting for liberty, tentatively\u003cbr\u003e 24. Shots heard round the world\u003cbr\u003e 25. Multiple revolutions\u003cbr\u003e 26. Decision\u003cbr\u003e 27. Religion then and now\u003cbr\u003e 28. A 'people's democracy'\u003cbr\u003e 29. Liberty, virtue, empire\u003cbr\u003e 30. Conquest, slavery, race\u003cbr\u003e 31. Combat: multiple outbreaks\u003cbr\u003e 32. Combat: the western theatre, I\u003cbr\u003e 33. Combat: the northern theatre, I\u003cbr\u003e 34. Combat: the northern theatre, II\u003cbr\u003e 35. Saratoga\u003cbr\u003e 36. Combat: the western theatre, II\u003cbr\u003e 37. 'West' in the middle\u003cbr\u003e 38. Combat: the southern theatre\u003cbr\u003e 39. Yorktown\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Clone Establishes its Form: 40. What next?\u003cbr\u003e 41. Land\u003cbr\u003e 42. People\u003cbr\u003e 43. Power\u003cbr\u003e Part V. More Conquests: 44. Climax\u003cbr\u003e 45. In sum.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Early modern history: c 1450\/1500 to c 1700\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Early%20modern%20history:%20c%201450\/1500%20to%20c%201700%20%5BHBLH%5D%22\"\u003eHBLH\u003c\/a\u003e], History of the Americas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20the%20Americas%20%5BHBJK%5D%22\"\u003eHBJK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46251988517144,"sku":"9780521662550","price":54.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521662550i.jpg?v=1691927886","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-creation-of-america-through-revolution-to-empire-hardback-9780521662550","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}