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The Loyalist problem in revolutionary New England / Thomas N. Ingersoll.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ingersoll, Thomas N., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American loyalists--New England.
- American loyalists.
- New England--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- New England.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107128613
- 1107128617
- OCLC:
- 950929181
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