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Robert McCluer Calhoon

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Description:This book is the first comprehensive modern account of what happened to the loyalists in the American Revolution. In a colonial society of 2,500,000, the loyalists numbered approximately 480,00. Nearly one-fifth of the population, therefore, held allegiance to the British Crown. The challenge they posed to the authority of the Continental Congress, especially since so many were highly placed, could not be avoided if the Revolution was to succeed.It is Mr. Calhoon's originality that he looks at the Revolution through the eyes of its loyalist victims. They were those colonists who criticized or opposed the pre-Revolutionary movement, those who understood the defects of British imperial administration but wanted to correct its faults without losing their place in the Empire, or those who feared the radical and democratic implications of Whig ideology. Hauled before committees of safety; threatened with injury, death, or financial ruin if they failed to conform to patriot demands; and often forced to fight for the King in a brutal civil war, the loyalists were integral participants in the Revolution. As adherents of a despised power, newly defined as illegitimate, they were condemned as moral lepers, to the extent that they acted from self-interest, fear, or ignorance, they were considered proper objects of correction and conversion; if they acted as soldiers, guerrillas, or civilian collaborators, they provoked severe patriot reprisal.Seen from Mr. Calhoun's perspective, the Revolution becomes more than a civil war or a struggle for national liberation. It was a search for the legitimate sources of authority within American society. The loyalists emerge tragic figures, for, despite their deep concern for colonial liberty and civil order, they were unable to adjust to the drastic orientation of values and political practices that the success of the Revolution required of all Americans. At the Revolution's end, 80,000 loyalists had gone into exile. They paid an extreme price for the allegiance to the Crown. For those who remained, a characteristic American process began: their old loyalty was absorbed into loyalty to the new nation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760 - 1781. To get started finding The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760 - 1781, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book is the first comprehensive modern account of what happened to the loyalists in the American Revolution. In a colonial society of 2,500,000, the loyalists numbered approximately 480,00. Nearly one-fifth of the population, therefore, held allegiance to the British Crown. The challenge they posed to the authority of the Continental Congress, especially since so many were highly placed, could not be avoided if the Revolution was to succeed.It is Mr. Calhoon's originality that he looks at the Revolution through the eyes of its loyalist victims. They were those colonists who criticized or opposed the pre-Revolutionary movement, those who understood the defects of British imperial administration but wanted to correct its faults without losing their place in the Empire, or those who feared the radical and democratic implications of Whig ideology. Hauled before committees of safety; threatened with injury, death, or financial ruin if they failed to conform to patriot demands; and often forced to fight for the King in a brutal civil war, the loyalists were integral participants in the Revolution. As adherents of a despised power, newly defined as illegitimate, they were condemned as moral lepers, to the extent that they acted from self-interest, fear, or ignorance, they were considered proper objects of correction and conversion; if they acted as soldiers, guerrillas, or civilian collaborators, they provoked severe patriot reprisal.Seen from Mr. Calhoun's perspective, the Revolution becomes more than a civil war or a struggle for national liberation. It was a search for the legitimate sources of authority within American society. The loyalists emerge tragic figures, for, despite their deep concern for colonial liberty and civil order, they were unable to adjust to the drastic orientation of values and political practices that the success of the Revolution required of all Americans. At the Revolution's end, 80,000 loyalists had gone into exile. They paid an extreme price for the allegiance to the Crown. For those who remained, a characteristic American process began: their old loyalty was absorbed into loyalty to the new nation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760 - 1781. To get started finding The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760 - 1781, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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