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Resisting independence : popular loyalism in the revolutionary British Atlantic / Brad A. Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Brad A., author.
- Series:
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Cornell scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- United States.
- Great Britain--Colonies--History.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Colonies--America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- 'Resisting Independence' maps the loyal British Atlantic's reaction to the American Revolution. Through close study of four important British Atlantic port cities - New York City; Kingston, Jamaica; Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Glasgow, Scotland - the book argues that the revolution helped trigger a new understanding of loyalty to the Crown and empire. The book reimagines loyalism as a shared transatlantic ideology, no less committed to ideas of liberty and freedom than the American cause and not limited to the inhabitants of the 13 American colonies. The book reminds readers that the American Revolution was as much a story of loyalty as it was of rebellion.
- Contents:
- A revolution in British loyalism
- A body politic: newspapers, networks, and the making of a nation
- Liberty triumphant: the Stamp Act crisis in the British Atlantic
- Common happiness: a divided British Atlantic on the eve of rebellion
- An house on fire: anti-Catholicism, rebellion, and the making of a British common cause
- The madness of these deluded people: creating an American enemy in the first years of the war
- The British lion is rouzed: the Franco-American alliance and the making of a new British common cause
- In defence of the Protestant religion: loyalism and radicalism in the revolutionary British Atlantic
- Reimagining loyalism in a postwar British Atlantic.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501754036
- 1501754033
- 9781501754029
- 1501754025
- OCLC:
- 1183397622
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