Tory Insurgents : The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays.

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 Press -- 9 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 Carolinas -- 16 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.

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