Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: A Revolution in British Loyalism 1
4. 1. A Body Politic: Newspapers, Networks, and the Making of a Nation 14
5. 2. Liberty Triumphant: The Stamp Act Crisis in the British Atlantic 40
6. 3. In Search of Common Happiness: A Divided British Atlantic on the Eve of Rebellion 70
7. 4. King-Killing Republicans: Rebellion and the Making of a British Common Cause 104
8. 5. The Madness of these Deluded People: Independence and the American Enemy 138
9. 6. The British Lion Is Rouzed: The Franco-American Alliance and a New British Common Cause 156
10. 7. In Defence of the Protestant Religion: Fighting Catholicism across the British Atlantic 176
11. Conclusion: Reimagining Loyalism in a Postwar British Atlantic 205
12. Acknowledgments 229
13. Notes 233
14. Index 307