| Description |
1 online resource (314 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text file |
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PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"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)"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
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Great Britain. |
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Colonies. |
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- America.
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History. |
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America. |
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HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) |
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British colonies. |
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United States. |
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American Revolution (United States : 1775-1783) |
| Chronological Term |
1775-1783 |
| Indexed Term |
British Atlantic, American revolution, Revolutionary ideology, Loyalism, Imperial Crisis. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version Jones, Brad A. Resisting independence Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2021 9781501754012 (DLC) 2020035173 (OCoLC)1151814030 |
| ISBN |
9781501754036 electronic book |
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1501754033 electronic book |
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9781501754029 electronic book |
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1501754025 electronic book |
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9781501754012 hardcover |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9781501754029 |
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