The Loyalist problem in revolutionary New England / Thomas N. Ingersoll, the Ohio State University.

Author
Ingersoll, Thomas N. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Description
xix, 316 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

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    The Loyalist Problem in Revolutionary New England begins with a snapshot of the region on the eve of the Boston Tea Party. The colonists' Republican tradition helped them spark the Revolution, but their special history also threatened the unity of the United States throughout the Revolutionary War, for Loyalists tried to discredit New Englanders as a naturally rebellious people. Yet Ingersoll shows that the rebels never sought to drive the dissenters out of the new nation, and accorded them a remarkable degree of liberal toleration, with the great majority of Loyalists ultimately becoming citizens of the new states.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: History, revolutionary ideology, and the loyalist problem
    • Pt. 1. New England in December, 1773
    • Pt. 2. From the Boston Tea Party and the war and independence
    • Pt. 3. The loyalist problem and ideology after 1776
    ISBN
    • 9781107128613 ((hardback))
    • 1107128617 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2016440927
    OCLC
    950929181
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