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This title includes fascinating stories of ordinary people in the Middle Colonies who remained loyal to the Crown.

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Author:   Joseph S. Tiedemann ,  Eugene R. Fingerhut ,  Robert W. Venables
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781438425894

ISBN 10:   1438425899
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   01 May 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Joseph S. Tiedemann and Eugene R. Fingerhut Part I. Places 1. ""The Ghost of Clow"": Loyalist Insurgency in the Delmarva Peninsula Wayne Bodle 2. ""Loyalty Is Now Bleeding in New Jersey"": Motivations and Mentalities of the Disaffected David J. Fowler Part II. Groups 3. Black Loyalists and African American Allegiance in the Mid-Hudson Valley Michael E. Groth 4. Northern Virginia's Quakers and the War for Independence: Negotiating a Path of Virtue in a Revolutionary World A. Glenn Crothers 5. ""Faithful Allies of the King"": The Crown's Haudenosaunee Allies in the Revolutionary Struggle for New York Robert W. Venables Part III. People 6. The Ordeal of John Connolly: The Pursuit of Wealth through Loyalism Doug MacGregor 7. From Revolutionary to Traitor: The American Career of Herman Zedtwitz Eugene R. Fingerhut Conclusion Joseph S. Tiedemann and Eugene R. Fingerhut About the Contributors Index"

Reviews

This volume is well written, annotated, and organized ... [a] fine academic accomplishment. - Journal of American History ...aims to fill significant gaps in our understanding of the American Revolution by focusing on loyalism among 'ordinary people' in the middle colonies ... The Other Loyalists addresses subjects that deserve more attention, and scholars interested in its main themes will want to read these essays. - The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Generally, more is known about the patriots than the loyalists in the American Revolution. This volume helps to correct that imbalance ... Coeditor Tiedemann, in particular, has done excellent work to portray the complexities of America's loyalists; this volume adds substantially to the work he and others have done. - CHOICE

"""This volume is well written, annotated, and organized ... [a] fine academic accomplishment."" - Journal of American History ""...aims to fill significant gaps in our understanding of the American Revolution by focusing on loyalism among 'ordinary people' in the middle colonies ... The Other Loyalists addresses subjects that deserve more attention, and scholars interested in its main themes will want to read these essays."" - The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography ""Generally, more is known about the patriots than the loyalists in the American Revolution. This volume helps to correct that imbalance ... Coeditor Tiedemann, in particular, has done excellent work to portray the complexities of America's loyalists; this volume adds substantially to the work he and others have done."" - CHOICE"

Author Information

Joseph S. Tiedemann is Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University and author of Reluctant Revolutionaries: New York City and the Road to Independence, 1763-1776. Eugene R. Fingerhut (1932-2006) was Professor Emeritus of History at California State University, Los Angeles and author of Survivor: Cadwallader Colden II in Revolutionary America. Tiedemann and Fingerhut are coeditors of The Other New York: The American Revolution beyond New York City, 1763-1787, also published by SUNY Press. Now retired, Robert W. Venables was Senior Lecturer in the Cultural Landscapes Program at Cornell University and author of the two-volume American Indian History: Five Centuries of Conflict and Coexistence.

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