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The Loyalist problem in revolutionary New England /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: History, Revolutionary Ideology, and the Loyalist Problem
- Part I. New England in December, 1773
- The New England People in their Towns on December Sixteenth, 1773: A Historic Mission at Risk
- Loyalists and Oliver Cromwell's Ghost: The Problem of the Radical Tradition in 1773
- "A Moral Distemper in the British Government": Loyalists, the Ruling Class, and the Mailed Fist
- Part II. From the Boston Tea Party to the War and Independence. Rebels and Loyalists from December Sixteenth, 1773, to September 1774
- "The Attempts of a Wicked Administration to Enslave America": The Peace of the Towns Destroyed and the Loyalist Cause, September 1774 to April 19, 1775
- "Avoid Blood and Tumult": Loyalist Policy During the War
- Part III. The Loyalist Problem and Ideology After 1776. The Radical Critique of Tory Oligarchy, Slavery, and Patriarchy
- The "Ugly Question" of Confiscation
- "A Day of Strict Reckoning" for "a Multitude Of Subtil Enemies"?: New England Loyalists after 1783
- Conclusion.