Recent Publications

The following are recent publications on the Loyalists and/or the Loyalist era:

2011:
Chopra, Ruma. Unnatural Rebellion: Loyalists in New York City during the Revolution. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, May 2011).See link

Jasanoff, Maya. Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World. London: Knopf, 2011. See link

Mancke, Elizabeth. "Polity Formation and Atlantic Political Narratives," in Philip D. Morgan & Nicholas Canny eds. Oxford Handbook on the Atlantic World, c1450-1820. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Riordan, Liam. "Loyalism" & "Loyalist". Oxford Bibliographies Online `Atlantic' Series (forthcoming).

Riordan, Liam (with Jerry Bannister) eds. The Loyal Atlantic: Remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary Era.Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011 (forthcoming).

Riordan, Liam. "`O Dear, What Can the Matter Be?': The Urban Early Republic and the Politics of Popular Song in Benjamin Carr's Federal Overture", Journal of the Early Republic, 31 (Summer 2011).

2010
Allen, Thomas B. Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War. New York: Harper Collins, 2010. See link

Huskins, Bonnie. “`Remarks and Rough Memorandums’: Social Sets, Sociability, and Community in the Journal of William Booth, Shelburne, 1787 and 1789,” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. 13 (2010).

Jasanoff, Maya. "Revolutionary Exiles: The American Loyalist and French Emigre Diasporas", in David Armitage & Sanjay Subrahmanya eds. The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Leroux, John. Building a University: The Architecture of UNB. Fredericton: Gooselane, 2010. See link

Mancke, Elizabeth. "The Languages of Liberty in British North America, 1607-1776," in Jack P. Greene ed. Exclusionary Liberty: The English Libertarian Heritage and the Construction of Britain's Settler Empire 1600 to 1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Riordan, Liam. "Taufscheine and Pennsylvania Germans in Revolutionary America: Cultural History and the Interpretation of Identity," Oliver Scheiding and Jan Steivermann eds. 'A Peculiar Mixture': German-Speaking People in the Greater Mid-Atlantic Region from 1709 to the Revolution Pennsylvania University Press, 2010.

Taylor, Alan. The Civil War of 1812. London: Knopf, 2010.

2009
Calhoon, Robert M., Timothy M. Barnes, & Robert Scott Davis eds. Tory Insurgents: The New Loyalist Perception and Other Essays. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009.

Mancke, Elizabeth. "Empire and State," David Armitage & Michael J. Braddick eds. The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800. 2nd edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2009.

Patterson, Stephen E. "Eighteenth-Century Treaties: the Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, and Passamaquoddy Experience," Native Studies Review, vol. 18, no. 1 (2009).

Reid, John G. "Empire, the Maritime Colonies, and the Supplanting of Mi'kma'ki/Wulstukwik, 1780-1820," Acadiensis, vol. XXXVIII, no. 2 (Summer/Autumn 2009).

Tiedemann, Joseph S. The Other Loyalists: ordinary people, royalism, and the revolution in the Middle Colonies, 1763-1787. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009.

Whitfield, Harvey Armani & Barry Cahill. "Slave Life and Slave Law in Colonial Prince Edward Island, 1769-1828," Acadiensis, vol. XXXVIII, no. 2 (Summer/Autumn 2009).

2008
Bell, James B. A War of Religion: Dissenters, Anglicans, and the American Revolution. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Davidson, Stephen. The Burdens of Loyalty: Refugee Stories from the First American Civil War. Saint John, N.B.: Trinity Enterprises Inc., 2008.

Jasanoff, Maya. “The Other Side of Revolution: Loyalists in the British Empire”, The William and Mary Quarterly, LXV (April 2008).

Kimber, Stephen. Loyalists and Layabouts: The Rapid Rise and Faster Fall of Shelburne, Nova Scotia: 1783-1792. Canada: Doubleday Canada, 2008.

MacNeil, Robert. "An Impossible Dream: Imagining a 'new and better New York' on Nova Scotia's rocky coast." Literary Review of Canada, vol. 16, no. 8 (October 2008).

Mancke, Elizabeth. "From Global Processes to Continental Strategies: The Emergence of British North America to 1783"(with John Reid) in Phillip Buckner ed. Canada and the British Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Middleton, Simon and Billy G. Smith, eds. Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

Reid, John G. Essays on Northeastern North America, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.

Riordan, Liam. Many Identities, One Nation: The American Revolution and its Legacy in the Mid-Atlantic University of Pennsylvania Press paperback edition, 2008.

Smith, Eleanor Robertson, ed., Remarks and Rough Memorandums: Captain William Booth. Corps of Royal Engineers. Shelburne, Nova Scotia. 1787, 1789. Shelburne: Shelburne County Archives & Genealogical Society, 2008.

Smith, Eleanor Robertson & Kim Robertson Walker. Founders of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Who Came, 1783-1793, and Stayed. Shelburne: Shelburne County Archives & Genealogical Society, 2008.

Thompson, Kent. The Man Who Said No: Reading Jacob Bailey, Loyalist. Kentville: Gaspereau Press, 2008.

Troxler, Carole Watterson. "Re-enslavement of Black Loyalists: Mary Postell in South Carolina, East Florida, and Nova Scotia." Acadiensis, vol. XXXVII, no. 2 (Summer/Autumn 2008).

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