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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Loyalism"”.
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Loyalism in Massachusetts: The Characteristics and Motivations of the Harvard Loyalists
… of economic or cultural minorities. Thus, their loyalism could be explained by their greater fear of dominance by a local majority than their fear of continued British rule. Nelson also studied the leaders of the loyalists, finding them to be distinguished from their ,more patriotic …
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The American revolution and popular loyalism in the British Atlantic world
My thesis explores the American Revolution and War for Independence within the broader context of the British Atlantic world. It examines how the war and the revolutionary ideology affected the ways in which Britons living throughout the Atlantic world understood and articulated their loyalty to …
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Victims of Liberty: Virginia's Response to Loyalists and Loyalism in Williamsburg, 1770-1781
… in the state. By examining publications on loyalism in the Virginia Gazelle between 1770 and 1781, and the Loyalist Claims Records, it is clear that Virgin ia, which was once tolerant and sometimes encouraging of loyalist and patriot debates, made a conscious decision after Lee's Resolution …
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Music and Noise: Loyalism, Marching, and the Meaning of the Political in Northern Ireland
In Northern Ireland, Protestant marching bands are hugely popular despite the political controversy often associated with them. Many of their parades commemorate Protestant military victories over Catholics and are seen by many today as triumphalist, sectarian, and offensive. However, tensions …
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The role of Evangelicalism in the formation of nineteenth-century Ulter Protestant cultural identity
… seemed evident as the synthesis between Loyalism, Orangeism and evangelicalism was explored against political chronology and in relation to covenantalism. A change in direction and a new political agenda with strong religious conviction became an aspect of Loyalism. This change was …
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The Belfast Boycott: Consumerism, Gender, and the Irish Border, 1920-1922
… Boycott was a protest designed to dislodge loyalism in Northern Ireland, punish its adherents for perceived intolerance toward Catholics, and end Irish partition. The boycott was set off by the expulsion of several thousand Catholic workers from employment in Belfast in July 1920. A total …
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POLITICS AND PERSONAL LIFE IN THE ERA OF REVOLUTION: THE TREATMENT AND REINTIGRATION OF ELITE LOYALISTS IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY VIRGINIA
<p>Historians of loyalism in Virginia during the American Revolution typically characterize supporters of the Crown as a small and unorganized group that had little bearing on the outcome of the war. However, these historians greatly underestimate the extent and nature of Virginia loyalists. …
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Thorns in the side of patriotism: Tory activity in southwest Virginia, 1776-1782
… safety of its inhabitants. This study discusses Loyalism in general, as well as the presence of Loyalists in Virginia and the other twelve colonies. The work then focuses on the people who settled in and the environment of southwest Virginia. Characteristics of some ethnic groups, especially the …
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Loyalist or Patriot: The Precarious Position of Edmund Randolph, 1774-1786
… but also the dynamic involved in revolutionary loyalism among elite families in the era. Based on a rich trove of primary sources such as government documents, personal papers, and newspapers, this modern intellectual biography of Edmund Randolph will add a crucial element to the revolutionary …
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Politics and Hermeneutics in the Meditations of Anne, Lady Halkett, 1651-1699
… to confirm her commitment to the church-and-king loyalism associated with James VII, despite the actual policies of his reign. In the 1690s as much as in the 1650s, she persisted in considering the king’s restoration, both spiritual and political, as the only genuine solution to the problems of …
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English Catholic Eschatology, 1558 - 1603.
… This thesis raises questions about Catholic loyalism which other scholars have also begun to challenge. Yet attempts to depose or murder the monarch was not the only response which could be adopted. Belief that one was living in the End also supported what this thesis terms ‘militant …
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Beleaguered resonance: Loyalist entrenchment and division in the early troubles, 1963–1985
<p>Taking as a starting point the framework that the Northern Ireland Troubles were largely fought on confessional sectarian, ethno-national grounds, this essay will analyze the internal and external forces that incited Ulster Protestant political responses from the premiership of Terence O’Neill, …
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Press, politics and revolution: newspapers and journalism in Cork city and county, 1910-23
During the century-shaping years of 1910 to 1923 newspaper enterprises played a key role in shaping/reflecting public opinion. In Cork, the battle for ‘hearts and minds’ was waged by Skibbereen's Southern Star and Skibbereen Eagle, and Cork city institutions, the Cork Examiner and Cork …
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Absence and presence: investigating the cinematic representation of Northern Irish unionists (1981-2020)
This research project explores the politics of cinematic representation in relation to Northern Irish unionists and focusses on feature-length fiction films released between 1981-2020. Prior to this contemporary period, only a handful of mainstream cinema releases featured identifiable unionist …
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The second coming of Paisley: militant fundamentalism and Ulster politics in a transatlantic context
Jordan, Richard L. B. A. University of Southern Mississippi, 2000. M. A. University of Southern Mississippi, 2002. Doctor of Philosophy, Fall Commencement, 2008. Major: History. The Second Coming of Paisley: Militant Fundamentalism and Ulster Politics in a Transatlantic Context. Dissertation …
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The Useable Past: History and Collective Identity in Nova Scotia, 1835-1920
This dissertation examines the writing of history in Nova Scotia between 1835 and 1920, beginning with the promotional loyalist works of Thomas Chandler Haliburton and ending in the early twentieth-century when tourism history emerged and marked an abrupt break from how historians had represented …
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Minorites, military service, and the legacies of post-war reconstruction in the British Isles, 1918-1939
This thesis aims to create a greater understanding of democratic citizenship in post-First World War Britain as it relates to minority status in the period 1918-1939. Arguing that histories of interwar politics have been slow to recognise the role and experiences of Britain’s minority communities …