{"product_id":"resisting-independence-9781501754012","title":"Resisting Independence","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Brad A. Jones\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eResisting Independence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Brad A. Jones maps the loyal British Atlantic's reaction to the American Revolution.\u003c\/b\u003e Through close study of four important British Atlantic port cities--New York City; Kingston, Jamaica; Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Glasgow, Scotland--Jones argues that the revolution helped trigger a new understanding of loyalty to the Crown and empire. This compelling account reimagines Loyalism as a shared transatlantic ideology, no less committed to ideas of liberty and freedom than the American cause and not limited to the inhabitants of the thirteen American colonies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJones reminds readers that the American Revolution was as much a story of loyalty as it was of rebellion. Loyal Britons faced a daunting task--to refute an American Patriot cause that sought to dismantle their nation's claim to a free and prosperous Protestant empire. For the inhabitants of these four cities, rejecting American independence thus required a rethinking of the beliefs and ideals that framed their loyalty to the Crown and previously drew together Britain's vast Atlantic empire. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eResisting Independence\u003c\/i\u003e describes the formation and spread of this new transatlantic ideology of Loyalism. Loyal subjects in North America and across the Atlantic viewed the American Revolution as a dangerous and violent social rebellion and emerged from twenty years of conflict more devoted to a balanced, representative British monarchy and, crucially, more determined to defend their rights as British subjects. In the closing years of the eighteenth century, as their former countrymen struggled to build a new nation, these loyal Britons remained convinced of the strength and resilience of their nation and empire and their place within it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46451178635415,"sku":"9781501754012","price":6760.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781501754012.webp?v=1769136016","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/resisting-independence-9781501754012","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}