Author: E. Alfred JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Loyalists
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The Loyalists of Massachusetts. Their Memorials, Petitions and Claims
Author: E. Alfred JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Loyalists
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The Loyalists of Massachusetts
Author: Edward Alfred JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American loyalists
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The Loyalists of Massachusetts: Their Memorials, Petitions and Claims. With 63 Portraits in Photogravure
Author: Edward Alfred JonesThe Loyalist Problem in Revolutionary New England
Author: Thomas N. IngersollPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316841871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The Loyalist Problem in Revolutionary New England begins with a snapshot of the region on the eve of the Boston Tea Party. The colonists' Republican tradition helped them spark the Revolution, but their special history also threatened the unity of the United States throughout the Revolutionary War, for Loyalists tried to discredit New Englanders as a naturally rebellious people. Yet Ingersoll shows that the rebels never sought to drive the dissenters out of the new nation, and accorded them a remarkable degree of liberal toleration, with the great majority of Loyalists ultimately becoming citizens of the new states.
The Consequences of Loyalism
Author: Rebecca BrannonPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611179513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This anthology examines the role of Loyalism in the American Revolution, building on the pioneering work of historian Robert M. Calhoon. Calhoon’s work on American Loyalists redefined their role in the Revolution, showing them to be dynamic figures adapting to a society in upheaval. In The Consequences of Loyalism, editors Rebecca Brannon and Joseph S. Moore shed light on Calhoon’s foundational influence and explore the continuing scholarship in the wake of his prolific career. This volume unites sixteen previously unpublished essays that build on Calhoon’s work and consider Loyalism’s relationship to conflict resolution, imperial bureaucracy, and identity creation. In the first of two sections, scholars discuss the complexities of Loyalist identity, while considering Calhoon’s earlier work. In the second section, scholars work from Calhoon’s later publications to investigate the consequences of Loyalism both for the Loyalists, and for the legacy of the Revolutionary War. This book brings Loyalist dilemmas alive, digging into their personalities and postwar routes. Loyalists from all facets of society fought for what they considered their home country: women wrote letters, commanders took to the battlefield, and thinkers shaped the political conversation. This volume complements Calhoon’s influential work, expands the scope of Loyalist studies, and opens the field to a deeper, perhaps revolutionary understanding of the king’s men.
Eleven Exiles
Author: Phyllis R. BlakeleyPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459720938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Eleven Exiles is a personal account of the American Revolution. By focusing on eleven different people who were on the losing side of the American Revolution, and who had to make new lives for themselves in what remained of British North America. Eleven Exiles reflects the major themes of those turbulent years. What were the attitudes of these men and women toward the significant social and political ideas of the time? What motivated them to leave their home and move to a wildnerness? What challenges and hardships did they face?
Loyalist Writings
Author: Wilbur Henry SiebertPublisher:
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Category : American loyalists
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Loyalist Literature
Author: Robert S. AllenPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459713605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
This highly readable guide is more than a bibliography. Written in a narrative style, it is as well a short history of the Loyalists: who they were, why they left, where they settled, and what their legacy is.
The American Magazine and Historical Chronicle
Author: Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Tea
Author: James R. FichterPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501773224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
In Tea, James R. Fichter reveals that despite the so-called Boston Tea Party in 1773, two large shipments of tea from the East India Company survived and were ultimately drunk in North America. Their survival shaped the politics of the years ahead, impeded efforts to reimburse the company for the tea lost in Boston Harbor, and hinted at the enduring potency of consumerism in revolutionary politics. Tea protests were widespread in 1774, but so were tea advertisements and tea sales, Fichter argues. The protests were noisy and sometimes misleading performances, not clear signs that tea consumption was unpopular. Revolutionaries vilified tea in their propaganda and prohibited the importation and consumption of tea and British goods. Yet merchant ledgers reveal these goods were still widely sold and consumed in 1775. Colonists supported Patriots more than they abided by non-consumption. When Congress ended its prohibition against tea in 1776, it reasoned that the ban was too widely violated to enforce. War was a more effective means than boycott for resisting Parliament, after all, and as rebel arms advanced, Patriots seized tea and other goods Britons left behind. By 1776, protesters sought tea and, objecting to its high price, redistributed rather than destroyed it. Yet as Fichter demonstrates in Tea, by then the commodity was not a symbol of the British state, but of American consumerism.