What is it about?
This group of essays explores the ways in which Scottish loyalists shaped and contributed to the British Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Once thought of as a narrow and defensive conservative reaction to political change and external military threat, historians have recently recast loyalism as the embodiment of a disparate and multifaced identity embraced by those of different ethnicities, religions, and political persuasions, touching even those who claimed neutrality.
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Why is it important?
Our collection has shown that by engaging with recent work on loyalism in the Atlantic world, as well as expanding the geographical and chronological contexts, Scottish Loyalists on both sides of the Atlantic, including those who were at times marginalized or had been considered enemies of the state, held clearly formed and mature understandings of counterrevolutionary politics as well as shared concepts of loyalty rooted in a commitment to Crown and empire which they expressed in a variety of ways.on of essays
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By adopting an expanded geographical and chronological range, these essays investigate examples of loyalism and popular royalism carried by Scots at home and in the British Atlantic world, at the time of the Revolutionary War, and in the decades that followed. As these essays demonstrate, loyalism was a patriotism born out of the messiness of the political, social, and economic transformation of this world, one that was entwined with the expansion of democracy.
Professor Graeme Morton
University of Dundee
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This page is a summary of: Scottish loyalism in the British Atlantic world, Atlantic Studies, September 2023, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2023.2251845.
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