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Book SynopsisFeaturing contributions by authors from across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, The Loyal Atlantic brings Loyalism into a genuinely international focus.
Trade Review'Jerry Bannister and Liam Riordan should be proud of this edited volume. With this book they have greatly expanded historian's knowledge of both loyalism and historiographical boundaries of loyalist studies.' -- Aaron N. Colman The Historian, vol 76:02:2014 'Those interested in aboriginal, American, Atlantic, British, Canadian, Caribbean, imperial, revolutionary, and transnational history will benefit from this well-designed and thoughtful collection.' -- Greg Brooking Journal of Southern History, vol 79: November 2013 'Jerry Bannister and Liam Riordan should be proud of this edited volume...The editors wanted their volume to reflect how "loyalism fundamentally shaped the British Atlantic world". They have achieved their goal with resounding success. The Loyal Atlantic should open historiographical pathways previously unimagined.' -- Aaron N. Coleman The Historian vol 76:02:2014 'This book wonderfully captures the complex and contested nature of British Atlantic loyalism in the Age of Revolution...An invaluable collection of essays.' -- Brad A. Jones The English Historical Review December 7, 2014 'An excellent collection on the Loyalist Atlantic.' -- Jeremy Black Eighteenth-Century Studies vol 48:01:204
Table of ContentsPreface Jerry Bannister and Liam Riordan Chapter One: Loyalism and the British Atlantic, 1660-1840 Jerry Bannister and Liam Riordan Part I: Interpretive Frameworks of Allegiance within Imperial Transition Chapter Two: The American Loyalist Problem of Identity in the Revolutionary Atlantic World Keith Mason Chapter Three: Imperial-Aboriginal Friendship in Eighteenth-Century Mi'kma'ki/Wulstukwik John G. Reid Part II: Transnational Print Culture and Loyalist Expression Chapter Four: Loyalists Respond to Common Sense: The Politics of Authorship in Revolutionary America Philip Gould Chapter Five: New Brunswick Loyalist Printers in the Postwar Atlantic World: Cultural Transfer and Cultural Challenges Gwendolyn Davies Part III: Loyalist Slavery and the Caribbean Chapter Six: Revolutionary Repercussions: Loyalist Slaves in St. Augustine and Beyond Jennifer K. Snyder Chapter Seven: Uses of the Bahamas by Southern Loyalist Exiles Carole Watterson Troxler Part IV: Loyalist Religious Politics after the American Revolution Chapter Eight: Loyal Orangemen and Republican Nativists: Anti-Catholicism and Historical Memory in Upper Canada and the United States, 1837-1867 Allison O'Mahen Malcom Chapter Nine: 'Papineau-O'Connell Instruments': Irish Loyalism and the Transnational Dimensions of the 1837 Rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada Allan Blackstock Afterword: Loyalist Cosmopolitanism Robert M. Calhoon
