Defender of the atlantic empire: Reverend William Smith and his Miranian vision.
From: Utopian Studies
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Date: 12/22/2005
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Author: Margeson, Ian
IT IS MISPLACED TO INTERPRET American Loyalism as synonymous with Tory reaction. Robert M. Calhoon--with The Loyalists in Revolutionary America 1760-1781--played a major role in debunking the "Tory" myth in his analysis of Loyalists of accommodation who called for Anglo-American reconciliation rather than imperial subjugation. Moderate Loyalists shared a continuing faith in not merely British constitutional structures, but perhaps more importantly the commercial and cultural ...
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