270. The Day The Brits Burned The White House (Ep 4)

Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnim. And me, William DeRimple. Now in the last episode we were looking at how the seven-year War ended both new France and pretty much any hope that the French Empire in the Americas would ever become a reality. But it did also bring its own problems, and that is the American Revolution.

And we are once again delighted to be joined by Maya Jasonoff, author of Liberty's Exile, The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire, which is partly about this transformation. So, I mean, let's first of all look at this aftermath of the Seven Year War. I mean, we touched on it before, but the main thing is you have to pay for the bullets and shots that you fired. And to do that, you need to raise taxes.

But you know what? The colonists don't like taxes very much because they don't see why they have to pay for an exchequer far, far away when they're the ones fighting the hardships in the land of expedition and pushing back boundaries that, you know, those in London will never know understand. or even more to the point when they don't get to have a say in the selection of their representatives. But for the purposes of thinking about Canadian history, we might want to highlight a couple of other consequences of the Seven Years' War leading up to the American Revolution. So the big issue there really has to do with the way that the British are going to manage having acquired this vast expanse of territory in North America.

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