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popular loyalism in the revolutionary British Atlantic
314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
A study of British Loyalism in four British Atlantic port cities, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Kingston, Jamaica, Glasgow and New York City, during the period of the American Revolution and War for Independence (1765-1783).
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.