Liberty's Exiles : American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Paperback)

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While I'm not sure that I buy the author's notion of a "spirit of 1783," which posits a Second British Empire run on centralized hierarchy, paternalism for its subjects, and global reach, it is interesting to read a 360-degree examination of the potential fates of those people who made their bet ...

from rivkat

British Loyalists who left the new United States after the American Revolution went on a diaspora unique in that it was internal to the Empire, and thus they remained subjects of the same crown even as they endured sometimes multiple dislocations. They played important roles in Canada and Sierra ...

from lfcb

This didn't pass the 100 page test. I'll have to try it again when I'm not as grumpy.

from TerriBooks

An interesting idea; I had never thought about what happened to the people in America who were on the "other side" of the American Revolution. This book documents their diaspora over the next couple generations to places as close as east Florida to as far away as Australia and India. I found the ...

from Larry

I read or have read (and own) many, many books about American history, particularly the American Revolution and the Civil War. Most of them cover or overlap the same material, which is acceptable when reading about or studying specific conflicts. What is really refreshing about this book is that ...