The persistence of empire
Subtitle: British political culture in the age of the American Revolution
By: Eliga H. Gould.
Contributors: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Publisher: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1789; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 18th century
Description: "The Persistence of Empire examines an important yet surprisingly understudied aspect of British and America history: the British public's predominantly loyal response to its government's handling of the American Revolution. Despite a deepening interest in the British dimensions of the Revolution, historians have so far focused largely on British expressions of sympathy for the colonists' resistance.

In contrast, Eliga Gould uses sources that include nearly one thousand political pamphlets as well as broadsides, private memoirs, and popular cartoons to explore why most Britons actually supported the American politics of George III and his ministers. In the process, he enriches our understanding of what the American Revolution meant to people on both sides of the Atlantic."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-251) and index.