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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451993103321

Titolo

The loyal Atlantic : remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary era / / edited by Jerry Bannister and Liam Riordan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-4426-6113-5

1-4426-9027-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Disciplina

971.02/4

Soggetti

United Empire loyalists

American loyalists

Electronic books.

United States History Revolution, 1775-1783

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Map: The Loyal British Atlantic, ca. 1775-1795 -- 1. Loyalism and the British Atlantic, 1660-1840 -- PART I. Interpretive Frameworks of Allegiance and Imperial Transition -- 2. The American Loyalist Problem of Identity in the Revolutionary Atlantic World -- 3. Imperial-Aboriginal Friendship in Eighteenth-century Mi'kma'ki/Wulstukwik -- PART II. Transnational Print Culture and Loyalist Expression -- 4. Loyalists Respond to Common Sense : The Politics of Authorship in Revolutionary America -- 5. New Brunswick Loyalist Printers in the Post-war Atlantic World: Cultural Transfer and Cultural Challenges -- PART III. Loyalist Slavery and the Caribbean -- 6. Revolutionary Repercussions: Loyalist Slaves in St Augustine and Beyond -- 7. Uses of the Bahamas by Southern Loyalist Exiles -- PART IV. Loyalist Religious Politics after the American Revolution -- 8. Loyal Orangemen and Republican Nativists: Anti-Catholicism and Historical Memory in Canada and the United States, 1837-67 -- 9. 'Papineau-O'Connell instruments': Irish Loyalism and the Transnational Dimensions of the 1837 Rebellions in Upper and Lower



Canada -- Afterword: Loyalist Cosmopolitanism -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Adding to a dynamic new wave of scholarship in Atlantic history, The Loyal Atlantic offers fresh interpretations of the key role played by Loyalism in shaping the early modern British Empire. This cohesive collection investigates how Loyalism and the empire were mutually constituted and reconstituted from the eighteenth century onward. Featuring contributions by authors from across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, The Loyal Atlantic brings Loyalism into a genuinely international focus. Through cutting-edge archival research, The Loyal Atlantic contextualizes Loyalism within the larger history of the British Empire. It also details how, far from being a passive allegiance, Loyalism changed in unexpected and fascinating ways - especially in times of crisis. Most importantly, The Loyal Atlantic demonstrates that neither the conquest of Canada nor the American Revolution can be properly understood without assessing the meanings of Loyalism in the wider Atlantic world.