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Independence Lost Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
Author: Kathleen DuVal

A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society — Over the last decade, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the study of early America?s marginalized voices. Now, in Independence Lost, she re... more »counts an untold story as rich and significant as that of the Founding Fathers: the history of the Revolutionary Era as experienced by slaves, American Indians, women, and British loyalists living on Florida?s Gulf Coast.

While citizens of the thirteen rebelling colonies came to blows with the British Empire over tariffs and parliamentary representation, the situation on the rest of the continent was even more fraught. In the Gulf of Mexico, Spanish forces clashed with Britain?s strained army to carve up the Gulf Coast, as both sides competed for allegiances with the powerful Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek nations who inhabited the region. Meanwhile, African American slaves had little control over their own lives, but some individuals found opportunities to expand their freedoms during the war.

Independence Lost reveals that individual motives counted as much as the ideals of liberty and freedom the Founders espoused: Independence had a personal as well as national meaning, and the choices made by people living outside the colonies were of critical importance to the war?s outcome. DuVal introduces us to the Mobile slave Petit Jean, who organized militias to fight the British at sea; the Chickasaw diplomat Payamataha, who worked to keep his people out of war; New Orleans merchant Oliver Pollock and his wife, Margaret O?Brien Pollock, who risked their own wealth to organize funds and garner Spanish support for the American Revolution; the half-Scottish-Creek leader Alexander McGillivray, who fought to protect indigenous interests from European imperial encroachment; the Cajun refugee Amand Broussard, who spent a lifetime in conflict with the British; and Scottish loyalists James and Isabella Bruce, whose work on behalf of the British Empire placed them in grave danger. Their lives illuminate the fateful events that took place along the Gulf of Mexico and, in the process, changed the history of North America itself.

Adding new depth and moral complexity, Kathleen DuVal reinvigorates the story of the American Revolution. Independence Lost is a bold work that fully establishes the reputation of a historian who is already regarded as one of her generation?s best.

Praise for Independence Lost

?Astonishing . . . Paint yourself a mental picture of the American War of Independence. If all you see are British redcoats battling minutemen and Continentals, [this book] will knock your socks off.??The New York Times Book Review

?Richly documented and compelling . . . a layered history of connected, sometimes shared, experiences.??The Wall Street Journal

?Remarkable, necessary?and entirely new.??The Daily Beast

?DuVal excellently details how the [American Revolution] was actually a war for empire.??Library Journal (starred review)

?With deep research and lively writing, DuVal musters a compelling cast to recover the dramatic story of the American Revolution in borderlands uneasily shared by rival empires, enslaved people, and defiant natives.??Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize?winning author of The Internal Enemy

?Gripping, rife with pathos, double-dealing, and intrigue.??Elizabeth A. Fenn, Pulitzer Prize?winning author of Encounters at the Heart of the World

From the Hardcover edition.

ISBN-13: 9780812981209
ISBN-10: 0812981200
Publication Date: 4/12/2016
Pages: 464
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Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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Genres:

History >> Americas >> United States >> Colonial Period
History >> Americas >> United States >> Revolution & Founding
History >> Military
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