{"product_id":"resisting-independence-brad-a-jones-9781501754012","title":"Resisting Independence","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brad A. Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501754017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501754012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2021","brand":"Brad A. Jones","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43994549813503,"sku":"9781501754012","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bcc0d75d-91d4-4347-ad80-23f0b9e5f40f.jpg?v=1683330817","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/resisting-independence-brad-a-jones-9781501754012","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}