{"product_id":"libertys-exiles-maya-jasanoff-9781400075478","title":"Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond. At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousand Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire.\u003ci\u003e Liberty's Exiles \u003c\/i\u003etells their story. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A smart, deeply researched and elegantly written history.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis surprising account of the founding of the United States and the shaping of the post-revolutionary world traces extraordinary journeys like the one of Elizabeth Johnston, a young mother from Georgia, who led her growing family to Britain, Jamaica, and Canada, questing for a home; black loyalists such as David George, who escaped from slavery in Virginia and went on to found Baptist congregations in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone; and Mohawk Indian leader Joseph Brant, who tried to find autonomy for his people in Ontario. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmbitious, original, and personality-filled, this book is at once an intimate narrative history and a provocative analysis that changes how we see the revolution's \"losers\" and their legacies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maya Jasanoff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1400075475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400075478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/06\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.25w x 0.98d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2012 pg. 32","brand":"Maya Jasanoff","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988423508223,"sku":"9781400075478","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d3ae2af4-075f-4caf-b5c2-b94fdc07fd61.jpg?v=1683294413","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/libertys-exiles-maya-jasanoff-9781400075478","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}