North of America : Loyalists, Indigenous nations, and the borders of the long American Revolution / Jeffers Lennox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lennox, Jeffers, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American loyalists--History.

American loyalists.

Indians of North America--History--18th century.

Indians of North America.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, Canadian.

United States.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Indians.

United States--Foreign relations--Canada.

Canada--Foreign relations--United States.

Canada.

Canada--History--1755-1763.

United States--Foreign relations--1775-1783.

Genre:

History.

Informational works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages) : illustrations, maps

Other Title:

Loyalists, Indigenous nations, and the borders of the long American Revolution

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"The story of the Thirteen Colonies' struggle for independence from Britain is well known to every American schoolchild. But at the start of the Revolutionary War, there were more than thirteen British colonies in North America. Patriots were surrounded by Indigenous homelands and loyal provinces. Independence had its limits. Upper Canada, Lower Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and especially the homelands that straddled colonial borders, were far less foreign to the men and women who established the United States than Canada is to those who live here now. These northern neighbors were far from inactive during the Revolution. The participation of the loyal British provinces and Indigenous nations that largely rejected the Revolution-as antagonists, opponents, or bystanders-shaped the progress of the conflict and influenced the American nation's early development. In this book, historian Jeffers Lennox looks north, as so many Americans at that time did, and describes how Loyalists and Indigenous leaders frustrated Patriot ambitions, defended their territory, and acted as midwives to the birth of the United States while restricting and redirecting its continental aspirations."-- Dust jacket.

How the United States was created—a complex and surprising story of patriots, Indigenous peoples, loyalists, visionaries and scoundrels The story of the Thirteen Colonies’ struggle for independence from Britain is well known to every American schoolchild. But at the start of the Revolutionary War, there were more than thirteen British colonies in North America. Patriots were surrounded by Indigenous homelands and loyal provinces. Independence had its limits. Upper Canada, Lower Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and especially the homelands that straddled colonial borders, were far less foreign to the men and women who established the United States than Canada is to those who live here now. These northern neighbors were far from inactive during the Revolution. The participation of the loyal British provinces and Indigenous nations that largely rejected the Revolution—as antagonists, opponents, or bystanders—shaped the progress of the conflict and influenced the American nation’s early development. In this book, historian Jeffers Lennox looks north, as so many Americans at that time did, and describes how Loyalists and Indigenous leaders frustrated Patriot ambitions, defended their territory, and acted as midwives to the birth of the United States while restricting and redirecting its continental aspirations.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

PROLOGUE

1. Of Montreal

2. Sea Power

3. A Northern Chorus

4. The National

5. Oneida

6. Portage

7. Land of Talk

EPILOGUE

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780300268775

0-300-26877-7

OCLC:

1334888346