![]() ![]() ![]() Considering themselves “free-born Englishmen,” the colonists hoped for a great partnership with the mother country, but they were treated as “distant and wayward inferiors.” Compounding the tension, notes the author, was the vacuum of civil government left by the British in the lands to the West between restive Colonial settlers and the resentful Indians. The colonists naturally assumed they would “share in the imperial fruits of victory,” but instead, the British authorities aimed to exert greater control over the Colonies, restricting speculation west of the Appalachians by proclamation and extracting much-needed revenue from them to pay for the costly war. Between 17, at the conclusion of the Seven Years’ War, the British and their colonists had conquered French Canada and claimed the West as far as the Mississippi River. ![]() of Virginia The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832, 2013, etc.), who has won the Pulitzer Prize (twice), the National Book Award, and the Bancroft Prize, underscores the myriad complex facets to the rebellion against British authority starting in the mid-18th century, especially the westward thrust to settle newly won Indian territory. In this broad history, eminent historian Taylor (History/Univ. A clear, authoritative, well-organized look at the messy Colonial march toward revolution and self-rule. ![]()
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