The Loyal Atlantic : : Remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary Era / / ed. by Jerry Bannister, Liam Riordan.

• MitwirkendeR: Bannister, Jerry,; Blackstock, Allan,; Calhoon, Robert M.,; Davies, Gwendolyn,; Gould, Philip,; Malcom, Allison O'Mahen,; Mason, Keith,; Reid, John G.,; Riordan, Liam,; Snyder, Jennifer K.,; Troxler, Carole Watterson,
• HerausgeberIn: Bannister, Jerry,; Riordan, Liam,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

Adding to a dynamic new wave of scholarship in Atlantic history, The Loyal Atlantic offers fresh interpretations of the key role played by Loyalism in shaping the early modern British Empire. This cohesive collection investigates how Loyalism and the empire were mutually constituted and reconstituted from the eighteenth century onward. Featuring contributions by authors from across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, The Loyal Atlantic brings Loyalism into a genuinely international focus.Through cutting-edge archival research, The Loyal Atlantic contextualizes Loyalism within the larger history of the British Empire. It also details how, far from being a passive allegiance, Loyalism changed in unexpected and fascinating ways - especially in times of crisis. Most importantly, The Loyal Atlantic demonstrates that neither the conquest of Canada nor the American Revolution can be properly understood without assessing the meanings of Loyalism in the wider Atlantic world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Map: The Loyal British Atlantic, ca. 1775-1795 -- 1. Loyalism and the British Atlantic, 1660-1840 -- PART I. Interpretive Frameworks of Allegiance and Imperial Transition -- 2. The American Loyalist Problem of Identity in the Revolutionary Atlantic World -- 3. Imperial-Aboriginal Friendship in Eighteenth-century Mi'kma'ki/Wulstukwik -- PART II. Transnational Print Culture and Loyalist Expression -- 4. Loyalists Respond to Common Sense : The Politics of Authorship in Revolutionary America -- 5. New Brunswick Loyalist Printers in the Post-war Atlantic World: Cultural Transfer and Cultural Challenges -- PART III. Loyalist Slavery and the Caribbean -- 6. Revolutionary Repercussions: Loyalist Slaves in St Augustine and Beyond -- 7. Uses of the Bahamas by Southern Loyalist Exiles -- PART IV. Loyalist Religious Politics after the American Revolution -- 8. Loyal Orangemen and Republican Nativists: Anti-Catholicism and Historical Memory in Canada and the United States, 1837-67 -- 9. 'Papineau-O'Connell instruments': Irish Loyalism and the Transnational Dimensions of the 1837 Rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada -- Afterword: Loyalist Cosmopolitanism -- Contributors -- Index