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Great!
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A devout Puritan minister in 17th-century New England, Roger Williams was also a social critic, diplomat, theologian, and politician who fervently believed in tolerance. Banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, Williams purchased land from the Narragansett Indians and laid the foundations for the colony of Rhode Island as a place where Indian and English cultures could flourish side by side, in peace. James A. Warren tells the remarkable and little-known story of the alliance between Roger Williams's Rhode Island and the Narragansett Indians, and how they joined forces to retain their autonomy and their distinctive ways of life against Puritan encroachment.
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The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain's age of empire. The global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the English language, and the institutions of representative government - all these can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain's economy, population, and culture from the 17th century until the mid-20th. On a vast and vividly colored canvas, Empire shows how the British Empire acted as midwife to modernity.
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Not Balanced till Conclusion
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- j.merritt
- 06-19-14
America's First Civil War
What did you love best about Liberty's Exiles?
Maya Jasanoff's narrative on what might be thought of as America's first civil war — the Revolution — is an engaging and comprehensive account of Americans who remained loyal to Britain and their postwar efforts to reclaim their lives in Canada, the Caribbean, India, Africa, and other parts of the British Empire. The narrator, L.J. Ganzer, does an able job, but because the author is female I think the narrator should have been female too.
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- Robert A Balach
- 03-04-18
Liberty's exiles
I have read other books on the loyalist of the American Revolution , however I have never read or heard of a book where the loyalists are treated as a Diaspora . I have heard of loyalists who have gone to Britain or other places of the globe but never treated as a group. Good read.
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- Brenda
- 01-18-20
Excellent
I have listened twice now and I purchased the book. Excellent information captured a piece of forgotten history.
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- Anders P Morley
- 02-21-21
Staggering in its Breadth
Jasanoff is an exceptionally talented historian who has apparently left no archive unopened in this sweeping history of the War of American Independence as an episode in British imperial history, indeed possibly the opening act in the modern age of imperialism. The lens she uses is that of the American Loyalists, who, as she demonstrates, were far more diverse than the familiar picture painted by old-style Canadian “Red Tory” historians (which Jasanoff, along the way, argues is a post-1812 revision and oversimplification). As it turns out, the lens is something of a kaleidoscope: Loyalists of all classes, colors, and motivations end up not only in provinces that would later become Canada, but in Jamaica, the Bahamas, the unwon American backcountry, Great Britain, Sierra Leone, and India (sometimes by roundabout routes that take them as far as the Philippines). We also see—and begin to understand why Jasanoff (not an Americanist, but a historian of the British Empire) has taken on this story—the re-merging of British and American interests after the “Revolution,” and the emergence of an English-speaking liberal global hegemony, as well as a pretty compelling case that republicanism (for better or worse, Jasanoff isn’t saying) and imperialism are hardly at odds. Acknowledged but unexplored is the fact that a majority of Loyalists simply remained in what became the United States.
A masterful achievement that I highly recommend.
As for the audio version, woman’s voice might have been nice, as the author is a woman. Ganser’s voice and diction are not ideally suited to scholarly writing. He consistently mis-emphasizes Jasanoff’s oft-used phrase “For all that X Y Z ...,” as if it were offset with a comma, and this becomes rather annoying after about ten times. And he very occasionally misreads French words as (apparently unfamiliar) English words. Nevertheless, it’s a long book to have read into a microphone, and on the whole his reading is of very high quality and not at all soporific. So I say, “Well done, Mr. Ganser.”
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- Kelly Watkins
- 04-01-24
Whatever happened to the Loyalists?
History is written by the victors, I enjoyed listening to the plight of the Loyalists after the war. However way too long with inconsequential details and big words. the whole thing could have been cut in half with just as much effect. would have also preferred a little more in the "during" the war, as it were it is only in the aspect of post-war. But interesting audiobook
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