Tory Insurgents: The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays - Softcover

Calhoon, Robert M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570039208 ISBN 13: 9781570039201

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 2010

Synopsis

Building on the work of his 1989 book The Loyalist Perception and Other Essays, accomplished historian Robert M. Calhoon returns to the subject of internal strife in the American Revolution with Tory Insurgents. This volume collects revised, updated versions of eighteen groundbreaking articles, essays, and chapters published since 1965, and also features one essay original to this volume. In a model of scholarly collaboration, coauthors Calhoon, Timothy M. Barnes, and Robert Scott Davis are joined in select pieces by Donald C. Lord, Janice Potter, and Robert M. Weir.Among the topics broached by this noted group of historians are the diverse political ideals represented in the Loyalist stance; the coherence of the Loyalist press; the loyalism of garrison towns, the Floridas, and the Western frontier; Carolina loyalism as viewed by Irish-born patriots Aedanus and Thomas Burke; and the postwar reintegration of Loyalists and the disaffected. Included as well is a chapter and epilogue from Calhoon's seminal―but long out-of-print―1973 study The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760-1781. This updated collection will serve as an unrivaled point of entrance into Loyalist research for scholars and students of the American Revolution.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

A revised and expanded edition of the germinal study of loyalism in the American Revolution

About the Author:

Robert M. Calhoon is a professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he taught from 1964 to 2008. Calhoon is the author of numerous books, including The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760-1781; Evangelicals and Conservatives in the Early South, 1740-1861; and Political Moderation in America's First Two Centuries.

Timothy M. Barnes is an associate professor of history at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is coeditor with Robert M. Calhoon and George A. Rawlyk of Loyalists and Community in North America.

Robert Scott Davis is director of the Family and Regional History Program and a professor of genealogy, geography, and history at Wallace State College in Hanceville, Alabama. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books, including Tracing Your Alabama Past, Requiem for a Lost City and Sallie Clayton's Memoirs of Civil War Atlanta.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1570039208
• ISBN 13: 9781570039201
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416