An Empire Divided
The American Revolution and the British Caribbean
There were 26-not 13-British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean-Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and Tobago, St. Vincent; and Dominica-were among the wealthiest. These island colonies were closely related to the mainland by social ties and tightly connected by trade. In a period when most British colonists in North America lived less than 200 miles inland and the major cities were all situated along the coast, the ocean often acted as a highway between islands and mainland rather than a barrier.The plantation system of the islands was so similar to that of the southern mainland colonies tha…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8122-9339-5
- EAN: 9780812293395
- Produktnummer: 20458264
- Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 376 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'396 KB
- Abbildungen: 41 illus.
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By Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
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