{"product_id":"independence-lost-lives-on-the-edge-of-the-american-revolution-paperback","title":"Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathleen Duval\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Pulitzer Prize-winning historian tells the \"astonishing\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) story of the Revolutionary War through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society--including enslaved people, American Indians, women, and British loyalists--in a revised edition with a new preface and afterword.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Kathleen DuVal is featured in the new Ken Burns documentary \u003ci\u003eThe American Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e.**\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of the American Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year Award - Winner of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey History Prize - Finalist for the George Washington Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the last decade, Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the study of early America's marginalized voices. Here, she recounts an untold story as significant as that of the Founding Fathers: the history of the Revolutionary Era as experienced by those living on Florida's Gulf Coast. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependence Lost\u003c\/i\u003e 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. The choices of individuals outside the colonies were crucial 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, who organized funds and garnered Spanish support for the American Revolution; and the half-Scottish-Creek leader Alexander McGillivray, who fought to protect indigenous interests from imperial encroachment. Their lives illuminate the fateful events along the Gulf of Mexico that changed the history of North America itself.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning historian \u003cb\u003eKathleen DuVal\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches early American and American Indian history. Her works include \u003ci\u003eNative Nations, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, \u003ci\u003eIndependence Lost, \u003c\/i\u003e which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize, and \u003ci\u003eThe Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent.\u003c\/i\u003e She is a coauthor of \u003ci\u003eGive Me Liberty! \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor of \u003ci\u003eInterpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52869815697632,"sku":"9780812981209","price":24.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/T2OLrFvsXW9780812981209.webp?v=1781282790","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/independence-lost-lives-on-the-edge-of-the-american-revolution-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}