001480060 000__ 05199nam\a22009855i\4500 001480060 001__ 1480060 001480060 003__ DE-B1597 001480060 005__ 20231026035123.0 001480060 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001480060 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001480060 008__ 230918t20092009nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001480060 020__ $$a9780814768686 001480060 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814768686.001.0001$$2doi 001480060 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)547397 001480060 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001480060 0410_ $$aeng 001480060 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001480060 050_4 $$aF127.S7 P37 2007 001480060 072_7 $$aHIS036080$$2bisacsh 001480060 08204 $$a974.72602 001480060 1001_ $$aPapas, Phillip, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001480060 24510 $$aThat Ever Loyal Island :$$bStaten Island and the American Revolution /$$cPhillip Papas. 001480060 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2009] 001480060 264_4 $$c©2009 001480060 300__ $$a1 online resource 001480060 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001480060 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001480060 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001480060 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001480060 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1 The Crossroads of the Middle Colonies The People, Society, and Environment of Staten Island -- $$t2 "An Unfriendly Disposition Towards the Liberties of America" Staten Islanders and the Colonial Resistance Movement -- $$t3 "As the Tempest Approaches" Staten Island and the Whig Defense of New York City -- $$t4 "Our Inveterate Enemies" Staten Islanders and the Arrival of the British Fleet at New York -- $$t5 The Price of Loyalty -- $$tAppendix 1 -- $$tAppendix 2 -- $$tAppendix 3 -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001480060 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001480060 520__ $$aOf 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 allegiance to the Anglican Church, on the eve of war it was in Staten Island's self-interest to throw its support behind the British, in order to maintain its favorable economic, social, and political climate. Over the course of the conflict, continual occupation and attack by invading armies deeply eroded Staten Island's 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. 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