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Liberty's Exiles : American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff (2011, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-101400041686
ISBN-139781400041688
eBay Product ID (ePID)92645885
Product Key Features
Book TitleLiberty's Exiles : American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Number of Pages480 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TopicUnited States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Political, Europe / Great Britain / General
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorMaya Jasanoff
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight29.1 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2010-023514
Reviews"Losers seldom get to write the history, but the American loyalists have at last got their historian with Maya Jasanoff. This is not just the story of their poignant and often tragic fate during the war for independence, but also the story of the loyalist diaspora, the experience of 65,000 men and women, black and white, as they spread into Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, and India. No one has told this story before, and Jasanoff tells it with uncommon style and grace." -Joseph J. Ellis "The days are long gone when American history was written not only by the victors but also about them. Yet we have had to wait too long for a history of the Loyalists who fought against the American Revolution, and lost. Maya Jasanoff has done more than merely rescue them from the condescension of posterity. She has made them live on the page. I can think of few books published in the past thirty years that shed more brilliant and revelatory light on the events of the revolutionary era than Liberty’s Exiles . It is more than just a work of first-class scholarship on a par with Linda Colley’s Britons . It is a deeply moving masterpiece that fulfils the historian’s most challenging ambition: to revivify past experience." -Niall Ferguson "Liberty's Exiles is a book which in scope and originality, global reach and research, intellectual curiosity and sheer provocative panache-- upturning in its wake whole applecarts of unchallenged assumptions-- can sustain comparison with Linda Colley or the young Simon Schama. The truth is that Maya Jasanoff is not just a very good writer, an indefatigable researcher and a fine historian, she is also a bit of a genius." -William Dalrymple “Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the Spirit of 1776, Jasanoff gives us the Spirit of 1783, dedicated to remaking the mighty British Empire, and then offers a stunning reinterpretation of the Loyalists' complicated role in that remaking. Her meticulously researched and superbly written account is historical revision at its finest, and it affirms her place as one of the very finest historians of the rising generation.� -Sean Wilentz “A masterful account of the struggles, heartbreak, and determination that characterized specific Loyalist families and individuals. . . [A] superb study of a little known episode in American and British history.� - PW (starred) Jasanoff moves artfully from larger global issues to individual stories documenting the turmoil&Splendidly researched, sensibly argued, and compassionately told.� - Kirkus (starred)
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal973.3
SynopsisOn November 25, 1783, the last British troops pulled out of New York City, bringing the American Revolution to an end. Patriots celebrated their departure and the confirmation of U.S. independence. But for tens of thousands of American loyalists, the British evacuation spelled worry, not jubilation. What would happen to them in the new United States? Would they and their families be safe? Facing grave doubts about their futures, some sixty thousand loyalists--one in forty members of the American population--decided to leave their homes and become refugees elsewhere in the British Empire. They sailed for Britain, for Canada, for Jamaica, and for the Bahamas; some ventured as far as Sierra Leone and India. Wherever they went, the voyage out of America was a fresh beginning, and it carried them into a dynamic if uncertain new world. A groundbreaking history of the revolutionary era, Liberty's Exiles tells the story of this remarkable global diaspora. Through painstaking archival research and vivid storytelling, award-winning historian Maya Jasanoff re-creates the journeys of ordinary individuals whose lives were overturned by extraordinary events. She tells of refugees like Elizabeth Johnston, a young mother from Georgia, who spent nearly thirty years as a migrant, searching for a home in Britain, Jamaica, and Canada. And of David George, a black preacher born into slavery, who found freedom and faith in the British Empire, and eventually led his followers to seek a new Jerusalem in Sierra Leone. Mohawk leader Joseph Brant resettled his people under British protection in Ontario, while the adventurer William Augustus Bowles tried to shape a loyalist Creek state in Florida. For all these people and more, it was the British Empire--not the United States--that held the promise of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Yet as they dispersed across the empire, the loyalists also carried things from their former homes, revealing an enduring American influence on the wider British world. Ambitious, original, and personality-filled, Liberty's Exiles is at once an intimate narrative history and a provocative new analysis--a book that explores an unknown dimension of America's founding to illuminate the meanings of liberty itself.
LC Classification NumberE277.J37 2011
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- Jan 13, 2024
Loyalists after what the British called the "Civil War."
Very interesting to see what it was like on the "Loyalist" side of the revolution after they lost the war. They had to leave, but where did they go? Yes, I knew some went to Nova Scotia or back to England, but there is a lot more to the story. Good book.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Aug 08, 2018
A good indication of the subject matter
A great read for all those interested I American historyVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Aug 24, 2016
TREMENDOUS
This is a great read,.......all reviews are correct, not pufferyVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
