{"product_id":"the-gaelic-and-indian-origins-samuel-k-fisher-9780197555842","title":"The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution: Diversity and Empire in the British Atlantic, 1688-1783","description":"How 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? \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel K. Fisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197555845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197555842\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.38h x 6.34w x 1.15d","brand":"Samuel K. Fisher","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44056590516479,"sku":"9780197555842","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_28efbc73-d475-443f-a48f-ec35e09aa4d8.jpg?v=1685042151","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-gaelic-and-indian-origins-samuel-k-fisher-9780197555842","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}