Recent Publications

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

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

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

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

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.

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).

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.

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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