The loyalist problem in revolutionary New England

The loyalist problem in revolutionary New England

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

xix, 316 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

973.314 I47 2016

(OCoLC)950929181

Begins with a snapshot of the region on the eve of the Boston Tea Party. The colonists' Republican tradition helped them spark the revolution, but their special history also threatened the unity of the United States throughout the revolutionary war, for loyalists tried to discredit New Englanders as a naturally rebellious people. Yet Ingersoll shows that the rebels never sought to drive the dissenters out of the new nation, and accorded them a remarkable degree of liberal toleration, with the great majority of loyalists ultimately becoming citizens of the new states--p. [i].
Includes bibliographical references and index.
L2018M87
Partial contents:New England in December 1773 -- From the Boston Tea Party to the war and indepenence -- The Loyalist problem and ideology after 1776.

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