| Contents |
A revolution in British loyalism -- A body politic: newspapers, networks, and the making of a nation -- Liberty triumphant: the Stamp Act crisis in the British Atlantic -- Common happiness: a divided British Atlantic on the eve of rebellion -- An house on fire: anti-Catholicism, rebellion, and the making of a British common cause -- The madness of these deluded people: creating an American enemy in the first years of the war -- The British lion is rouzed: the Franco-American alliance and the making of a new British common cause -- In defence of the Protestant religion: loyalism and radicalism in the revolutionary British Atlantic -- Reimagining loyalism in a postwar British Atlantic. |
| Abstract |
"A study of British Loyalism in four British Atlantic port cities - Halifax [Nova Scotia], Kingston [Jamaica], Glasgow, and New York City - during the period of the American Revolution and War for Independence (1765-1783)"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Jones, Brad A. Resisting independence Ithaca, [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021 9781501754029 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2020035173 |
| ISBN | 9781501754012 |
| ISBN | 1501754017 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
