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Libertys Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire.

English

By (author): Maya Jasanoff

More than just a work of first-class scholarship, Libertys Exiles is a deeply moving masterpiece that fulfils the historians most challenging ambition: to revivify past experience. Niall Ferguson

Libertys Exiles was shortlisted for the 2011 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize.

Early in the afternoon of 25 November 1783, the American Revolution was finally over; the British were gone, the patriots were back and a key moment inscribed itself in the annals of the emerging United States. Territorial independence from Great Britain had effectively begun.

In 'Libertys Exiles, Maya Jasanoff examines the realities of the end of the Revolution, through looking at the lives of the Loyalist refugees those men and women who took Britain's side. She tells the story of Elizabeth Johnston from Savannah, whose family went on to settle in St Augustine, Scotland, Jamaica and Nova Scotia; Reverend Jacob Bailey, who fled from New England across rough seas to Canada with his family and little more than the clothes on his back; five-year-old Catherine Skinner the daughter of a loyalist who was trapped as a prisoner in her home, hiding from the gunshots of rebel raiders. Their experiences speak eloquently of a larger history of exile, mobility and the shaping of the British Empire in the wake of the American War.

Beautifully written and rich with source material, 'Libertys Exiles' is a history of the American Revolution unlike any before.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 330g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780007180103

About Maya Jasanoff

Maya Jasanoff is Coolidge Professor of history at Harvard University. Her first book Edge of Empire was awarded the 2005 Duff Cooper Prize and was a book of the year selection in numerous publications including the Economist Guardian and Sunday Times. Her second Libertys Exiles was shortlisted for the 2011 Samuel Johnson Prize (now Baillie Gifford). Her third book The Dawn Watch won the 2018 Cundill Prize the richest non-fiction historical literature prize in the world and was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize. A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow Jasanoff won the prestigious 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction. Her essays and reviews appear frequently in publications including The Guardian the New York Times and the New York Review of Books.

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