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The American revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britain's most humiliating defeat as an Imperial power. This book examines the British public's predominantly loyal reponse to its government's actions in America. The author attributes support for George III's American policies to a combination of factors, including growing isolationism in regard to the European continent and a burgeoning sense of the colonies as intergal parts of a greater British nation. He argues that the public accepted ill-conceived projects, such as the Stamp Act, because theirs was an """"armchair"""" patriotism based on paying others to fight their battles for them. Drawing on nearly 1000 political pamphlets, as well as broad sides, private memoirs and popular cartoons the book offers an insight into 18th-century British political culture and an account of what the revolution meant to people on both sides of the Atlantic.

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This is a thought-provoking book, its argument consistently developed in sophisticated and engaging terms and presented with lucidity and grace. Reviews in American History YA nicely written and articulate study. Historian A well-researched, closely argued account of the impact of the American Revolution on British political culture. International History Review This is a thought-provoking book, its argument consistently developed in sophisticated and engaging terms and presented with lucidity and grace. Reviews in American History A well-researched, closely argued account of the impact of the American Revolution on British political culture. International History Review An impressively well-documented analysis of the empire from an English perspective. William and Mary Quarterly Gould has made a substantial contribution not only to imperial and Atlantic histories but also to the study of Britishness. Journal of American History [A] nicely written and articulate study. Historian

ÝA¨ nicely written and articulate study.""Historian"" A well-researched, closely argued account of the impact of the American Revolution on British political culture.""International History Review"" This is a thought-provoking book, its argument consistently developed in sophisticated and engaging terms and presented with lucidity and grace.""Reviews in American History"" ""A well-researched, closely argued account of the impact of the American Revolution on British political culture.""International History Review"""" ""This is a thought-provoking book, its argument consistently developed in sophisticated and engaging terms and presented with lucidity and grace.""Reviews in American History"""" [A] nicely written and articulate study.""Historian"" An impressively well-documented analysis of the empire from an English perspective. ""William and Mary Quarterly"" Gould has made a substantial contribution not only to imperial and Atlantic histories but also to the study of Britishness.""Journal of American History""

This is a thought-provoking book, its argument consistently developed in sophisticated and engaging terms and presented with lucidity and grace. Reviews in American History

This is a thought-provoking book, its argument consistently developed in sophisticated and engaging terms and presented with lucidity and grace.<p> Reviews in American History

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Eliga H. Gould is associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire.

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