{"product_id":"that-ever-loyal-island-staten-island-and-the-american-revolution-9780814767665","title":"That Ever Loyal Island: Staten Island and the American Revolution","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThat Ever Loyal Island: Staten Island and the American Revolution\u003c\/strong\u003e by Papas, Phillip. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780814767665.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf 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 Papass illuminating case study of the local dimensions of the Revolutionary War.\nPapas traces Staten Islands 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 allegiance to the Anglican Church, on the eve of war it was in Staten Islands self-interest to throw its support behind the British, in order to maintain its favorable economic, social, and political climate.\nOver the course of the conflict, continual occupation and attack by invading armies deeply eroded Staten Islands natural and other resources, and these pressures, combined with general war weariness, created fissures among the residents of “that ever loyal island,” with Loyalist neighbors fighting against Patriot neighbors in a civil war. Papas’s thoughtful study reminds us that the Revolution was both a civil war and a war for independence—a duality that is best viewed from a local perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666040643637,"sku":"ByrdShop_0814767664","price":61.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780814767665_b335ff3f-8234-4fbd-b0f0-42b769132fe5.jpg?v=1782451783","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/that-ever-loyal-island-staten-island-and-the-american-revolution-9780814767665","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}