Tory Insurgents

The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays

Auteur: Calhoon, Robert M.; Barnes, Timothy M.; Davis, Robert S.; Lord, Donald C.; Potter-MacKinnon, Janice; Weir, Robert M.
Éditeur: University of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570039201
eISBN Pdf: 9781611172287
eISBN Epub: 9781611172287
Lieu de publication: South Carolina , United States
Année de publication électronique: 2012
Mois : Août
Langue: Anglais

Légende

Building on the work of his 1989 book The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays, accomplished historian Robert M. Calhoon returns to the subject of internal strife in the American Revolution with Tory Insurgents. This volume collects revised, updated versions of eighteen groundbreaking articles, essays, and chapters published since 1965, and also features one essay original to this volume. In a model of scholarly collaboration, coauthors Calhoon, Timothy M. Barnes, and Robert Scott Davis are joined in select pieces by Donald C. Lord, Janice Potter, and Robert M. Weir.

Among the topics broached by this noted group of historians are the diverse political ideals represented in the Loyalist stance; the coherence of the Loyalist press; the loyalism of garrison towns, the Floridas, and the Western frontier; Carolina loyalism as viewed by Irish-born patriots Aedanus and Thomas Burke; and the postwar reintegration of Loyalists and the disaffected. Included as well is a chapter and epilogue from Calhoon's seminal—but long out-of-print—1973 study The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760-1781. This updated collection will serve as an unrivaled point of entrance into Loyalist research for scholars and students of the American Revolution.

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Ideas
- 1 The Loyalist Perception
- 2 "The Constitution Ought to Bend": William Smith, Jr.'s, Alternative to the American Revolution
- 3 The Removal of the Massachusetts General Court from Boston, 1769–1772
- 4 "The Scandalous History of Sir Egerton Leigh"
- 5 "I Have Deduced Your Rights": Joseph Galloway's Concept of His Role, 1774–1775
- 6 "Unhinging Former Intimacies": Robert Beverley's Perception of the Pre-Revolutionary Controversy, 1761–1775
- 7 The Uses of Reason in Political Upheaval
Part 2: Action
- 8 The Character and Coherence of the Loyalist Press
- 9 Loyalist Discourse and the Moderation of the American Revolution
- 10 Civil, Revolutionary, or Partisan: The Loyalists and the Nature of the War for Independence
- 11 The Floridas, the Western Frontier, and Vermont: Thoughts on the Hinterland Loyalists
- 12 Loyalism and Patriotism at Askance: Community, Conspiracy, and Conflict on the Southern Frontier
- 13 The Man Who Would Have Been: John Dooly, Ambition, and Politics on the Southern Frontier
Part 3: Practice
- 14 Moral Allegiance: John Witherspoon and Loyalist Recantation
- 15 Aedanus Burke and Thomas Burke: Revolutionary Conservatism in the Carolinas
- 16 The Reintegration of the Loyalists and the Disaffected
Conclusion: A Special Kind of Civil War
Bibliographical Essay
Index
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