British Colonial Theories 1570-1850. by Knorr, Klaus, E.

Table of Contents: “…The Dissenters and the American War of Independence…”
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The Eclipse of Urbanism and the Greening of Public Space : Image Making and the Search for a Commons in the United States, 1682-1865. by Luccarelli, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Front cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction ; Philadelphia: green urbanism and the Atlantic world; The Atlantic World; Town Planning and Civic Identity; Cityscape as a Picturesque Object of the Merchants' Republic; The End of the Merchants' Republic; American War for Independence/Revolution; The Development of the Public Sphere; Overcoming Political Strife: Territorial Expansion and Public Sphere Contraction; Representing Philadelphia in 1800: A Post-Republican Picturesque; Present and Future; The Two Pasts (Conceptual and Lived Spaces); Eclipse of Urbanism.…”
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Staging history : 1780-1840 /

A Merciless Place : the Fate of Britain's Convicts after the American Revolution. by Christopher, Emma, 1971-

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The people of the standing stone : the Oneida nation from the Revolution through the Era of Removal / by Tiro, Karim M.

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A nation of politicians : gender, patriotism, and political culture in late eighteenth-century Ireland / by Higgins, Padhraig

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Transnational soldiers : foreign military enlistment in the modern era /

Table of Contents: “…Collins PART I: RE-EXAMINING THE DECLINE OF MERCENARY ARMIES, 1776-1815 Desperate for Soldiers: The Recruitment of German Prisoners of War during the American War of Independence, 1776-1783 -- D. Krebs German Auxiliary Troops in the British and Dutch East India Companies -- C.T. …”
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A Concise History of Human Civilization. the World through Chinese Eyes. by Fung, Y. W.

Table of Contents: “…35: Southeast Asia and Australasia During the Colonial Period -- 36: The Early Qing Period -- 37: The Enlightenment in Europe -- 38: The First Industrial Revolution -- 39: The American War of Independence -- 40: The French Revolution -- 41: The Meiji Restoration in Japan -- 42: The Late Qing Period -- Back Cover -- A Concise History of Human Civilization: Volume 2 -- Advance Praise -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- The Modern Period -- 43: The 1911 Revolution in China -- 44: The First World War -- 45: The October Revolution in Russia…”
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Wales, the Welsh and the making of America / by Sanders, Vivienne

Table of Contents: “…The Welsh contribution to education in the colonies -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3: Richard Price and the American Revolution -- Price and the taxation of the American colonies -- Price's Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty -- Price and the American Declaration of Independence -- Price's invitation to America -- Price and the American Constitution -- Richard Price: conclusions -- Chapter 4: The Welsh American Military Contribution to the American War of Independence -- Charles Lee -- 'Mad' Anthony Wayne -- Daniel Morgan…”
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Irish stereotype in American cinema : stories of violence / by Szczypa, Piotr

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Violence and the Irish -- 1 An Irish Colony Across The Atlantic Ocean -- 1 The Irish in Colonial America -- 2 The American War of Independence -- 3 The Great Famine Period -- 4 Irish Americans in the 20th Century: Divided We Stand -- 5 Irish Americans and Irish Nationalism -- 6 The Second World War: The Irish Fall from Grace -- 7 The Troubles -- 8 The Irish in American Popular Culture -- 2 The Irish on The Silver Screen -- 1 Irish Film Characters of the Silent Film Era -- 2 The Classical Period since 1930 -- 2.1 Violent Ways: The Irish as Gangsters -- 2.2 Against Violence: Irish American Catholic Priests -- 2.3 Irish Police Officers -- 2.4 Destroyed by Violence: Irish Boxers -- 2.5 IRA Films -- 2.6 The Irish and Union Violence -- 2.7 Irish American Combatants -- 3 The Irish in New Hollywood -- 1 Don Siegel's Dan Madigan and Harry Callahan -- 2 Ted Post's Magnum Force and James Fargo's The Enforcer -- 3 Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle: The French Connection -- 4 Union Violence -- 5 Gangsters and Boxers: Old and Tired -- 6 Other Representations of the Irish in New Hollywood -- 4 Contemporary Hollywood: The Irish as Outlaw Heroes -- 1 Irish Cops: Labeled as Irish -- 1.1 The Twilight of Dirty Harry -- 1.2 The Dawn (and Twilight) of John McClane -- 1.3 The Irish Killing Machine: Robocop -- 2 Northern Irish Republicanism -- 3 Irish Gangs: The Great Return -- 4 Irish American Vigilantism -- 5 Contemporary Hollywood: The Irish as Official Heroes -- 1 Irish American Law Enforcement -- 2 Firefighters in the Irish American Bildungsroman -- 3 New Boxers in Irish America -- 4 Other Violent Characters -- 5 The Irish Ethnotype in Contemporary American Cinema -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Works Cited -- Index.…”
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Evaluating empire and confronting colonialism in eighteenth-century Britain / by Greene, Jack P.

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The Trafalgar chronicle. journal of the 1805 Club /

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Britain's empire : resistance, repression and revolt / by Gott, Richard, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…The challenge to imperial power : Native Americans, Caribbean slaves, Indian princes and Irish peasants, 1755-72: Native American resistance during the French and Indian War ; The last great native American rebellions ; Slave rebellions in the Caribbean ; Treaties and proclamation mark the end of the French and Indian War ; Muslim resistance in Bengal and Mysore ; Peasant resistance in Ireland -- White settler revolt in America, and fresh resistance in Canada, India and the Caribbean, 1770-89: Episodes of resistance during the American War of Independence ; Native American resistance to fur traders in Western Canada ; The resistance in Southern India -- The loss of America creates a need for new prisons abroad and a place to settle Black 'Empire Loyalists', 1786-1802: The British search for distant gulags ; The Black settlers of Sierra Leone -- Britain expands its counter-revolutionary empire during the war against revolutionary France, 1793-1802: Resistance to empire in the Caribbean in the wake of the French Revolution ; Slaves and 'Free Coloureds' in the French islands of the Caribbean resist absorption in the Empire ; Europe's revolutionary conflict spreads to South Africa ; The Dutch empire in Ceylon ; The Great Irish Rebellion of 1798 ; Tipu Sultan and the final resistance of Indian forces in Mysore -- Resistance to imperial expansion during the wars against Napoleon, 1803-15: Rebellions, revolts and mutinies in the Caribbean ; The resistance of the Marathas to the British invasion of Central India ; Mutiny and revolt by Muslim sepoys and European officers ; Rebellion in Australia and the slaughter of aborigines ; Resistance in South Africa, South America and Egypt ; Slave rebellion, Xhosa resistance, and White settler revolt in Cape Colony ; British penetration into the Persian Gulf ; The British seizure of Mauritius, the Seychelles and Indonesia ; Bulbhadar Singh and the Gurkha resistance in Nepal ; The British conquest of Kandy -- Slave revolts, White settlement, indigenous extermination, and the advance into Burma and Assam, 1816-30: Slave rebellions in the Caribbean ; The Battle of Seven Oaks, Canada ; Revolts and resistance in Central India ; Revolt, fresh settlement and extermination in Cape Colony ; The British base and prison on the island of Singapore ; Years of unrest culminate in a fresh revolt in Ireland ; Aborigine resistance in Australia and White retaliation ; The Ashanti defeat the British at Esamankow ; The Burmese Empire fights back ; Tea and strategy : the Rajahs and Hill peoples of Assam rebel -- An end to colonial slavery and resistance to fresh settlement, 1830-38: Slave rebellions in the Caribbean hasten the end of slavery ; White settlers devise new ways to hunt the Australian aborigines ; The Whitefeet in Ireland oppose the payment of tithes and rent ; White settler rebellions and Buddhist resistance in the East ; Resistance in the Strait of Malacca ; Resistance on the Gambia River in West Africa ; The end of slavery in Cape Colony, the Rebellion of Maqoma, and the flight of the Boer farmers ; White settler rebellions in Canada -- Imperial humiliation and further expansion, 1839-47: The capture of useful imperial harbours ; Revolts among the Hill tribes of Assam ; Resistance to the British invasion of Afghanistan ; The resistance of the Amirs of Sind is reinforced by their Baluchi soldiers ; The long struggle of the Sikhs in the Punjab ; Aborigine resistance in Victoria and Queensland ; Maori resistance in New Zealand ; Muslim resistance in Sarawak ; The penultimate battles of the Xhosa in Cape Colony -- Prelude to the Mutiny, 1848-53: William Smith O'Brien and the rising of the young Irelanders ; Dr Christopher Elliott, Wikrama Sardawa Siddhapa and the Rebellion of the Kandy Pretenders ; The final rebellion of the Xhosa in Cape Colony ; West African resistance ; The start of an endless saga : the north-west frontier territories of India ; The Burmese empire resists further invasion -- The gathering storm, 1854-58: The Taiping Rebellion spreads unrest among Chinese communities elsewhere ; White settler rebellion in Australia and further aborigine resistance ; The Santals in Bengal and the Moplahs in Malabar ; James Sayers Orr and the 'Angel Gabriel' riots in Guyana ; Nongqawuse and the self-destruction of the Xhosa in Cape Colony ; The great rebellion in India.…”

From Golden Rock to Historic Gem : a Historical Archaeological Analysis of the Maritime Cultural Landscape of St. Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean / by Stelten, Ruud, 1986-

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Simón Bolívar : Venezuelan rebel, American revolutionary / by Langley, Lester D.

Privateering, piracy and British policy in Spanish America, 1810-1830 / by McCarthy, Matthew

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Privateering, piracy and British policy in Spanish America, 1810-1830 / by McCarthy, Matthew

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