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Author Calhoon, Robert M. (Robert McCluer), author.

Title Tory insurgents : the loyalist perception and other essays / Robert M. Calhoon, Timothy M. Barnes, and Robert S. Davis ; in collaboration with Donald C. Lord, Janice Potter-MacKinnon, and Robert M. Weir
Edition Rev. and expanded ed
Published Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press, [2010]

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 393 pages)
Contents 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 Press9 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 Carolinas16 The Reintegration of the Loyalists and the Disaffected; Conclusion: A Special Kind of Civil War; Bibliographical Essay; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary A new edition of the germinal study of Loyalism in the American Revolution
Notes Revised edition of: The loyalist perception and other essays. Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c1989
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject American loyalists.
HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
American loyalists
Politics and government
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140413
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Barnes, Timothy M., author.
Davis, Robert Scott, 1954- author.
Lord, Donald C. (Donald Charles), editor.
Potter-MacKinnon, Janice, 1947- editor.
Weir, Robert M., editor.
Calhoon, Robert M. (Robert McCluer). Loyalist perception and other essays.
ISBN 9781611172287
1611172284