TY  - BOOK
AU  - Papas,Phillip
TI  - That ever loyal island: Staten Island and the American Revolution 
SN  - 9781435600423
AV  - F127.S7 P37 2007eb
U1  - 974.7/02 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - State & Local
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - Military campaigns
KW  - fast
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - History, Military
KW  - 18th century
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1775-1783
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - United States
KW  - Histoire militaire
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 1775-1783 (Révolution)
KW  - Campagnes et batailles
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Staten Island
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Military history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-172) and index; The crossroads of the middle colonies: the people, society, and environment of Staten Island -- "An unfriendly disposition towards the liberties of America": Staten Islanders and the colonial resistance movement -- "As the tempest approaches": Staten Island and the whig defense of New York City -- "Our inveterate enemies": Staten Islanders and the arrival of the British fleet at New York -- The price of loyalty
N2  - Of crucial strategic importance to both the British and the Continental Army, Staten Island was, for a good part of the American Revolution, a bastion of Loyalist support. With its military and political significance, Staten Island provides rich terrain for Phillip Papas's illuminating case study of the local dimensions of the Revolutionary War. Papas traces Staten Island's political sympathies not to strong ties with Britain, but instead to local conditions that favored the status quo instead of revolutionary change. With a thriving agricultural economy, stable political structure, and strong
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