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Liberty's exiles : American loyalists in the revolutionary world

Title
Liberty's exiles : American loyalists in the revolutionary world / Maya Jasanoff.
ISBN
9781400041688 (hbk.)
1400041686 (hbk.)
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Physical Description
xvi, 460 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Summary
At the end of the American Revolution, 60,000 Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 01, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-437) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The spirit of 1783
pt. 1. Refugees. Civil war
An unsettling peace
A new world disorder
pt. 2. Settlers. The heart of empire
A world in the wilderness
Loyal Americas
pt. 3. Subjects. Islands in a storm
False refuge
Promised land
Empires of liberty
Conclusion: Winners and losers
Appendix: Measuring the exodus.
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