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Contexts: Loyalism in the American Revolution
Maya Jasanoff, Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University, joins us to explore the contested politics of loyalty during the American Revolution. Author of Liberty's Exiles, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, Jasanoff will draw on her acclaimed scholarship of empire, migration, and global history, to examine the experiences of Loyalists whose allegiances complicated the familiar narratives of patriotism and independence, while revealing the Revolution as a deeply divided and transnational conflict with lasting consequences. The presentation will be followed by a conversation moderated by Ben Zeigler, member of the SC250 Commission and one of the organizers of the Revolutionary Ideas Symposium.
*** Books will be available for purchase at Dock Street Theatre thanks to our onsite pop-up bookstore by Buxton Books. There will be a book signing following the program. ***
Featured Speaker: Maya Jasanoff
Maya Jasanoff’s teaching and research focus on the history of modern Britain and the British Empire, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries. Her first book, Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850, investigates British expansion in India and Egypt through the lives of art collectors. It was awarded the 2005 Duff Cooper Prize and was a book of the year selection in numerous British publications including The Economist, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. She has recently completed a new book, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (forthcoming February 2011), which provides the first global history of the loyalists who fled the United States after the American Revolution, and resettled in Canada, the Caribbean, Britain, Sierra Leone, and beyond. Her current research explores the worlds of Joseph Conrad. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times Magazine.
Maya Jasanoff, Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University, joins us to explore the contested politics of loyalty during the American Revolution. Author of Liberty's Exiles, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, Jasanoff will draw on her acclaimed scholarship of empire, migration, and global history, to examine the experiences of Loyalists whose allegiances complicated the familiar narratives of patriotism and independence, while revealing the Revolution as a deeply divided and transnational conflict with lasting consequences. The presentation will be followed by a conversation moderated by Ben Zeigler, member of the SC250 Commission and one of the organizers of the Revolutionary Ideas Symposium.
*** Books will be available for purchase at Dock Street Theatre thanks to our onsite pop-up bookstore by Buxton Books. There will be a book signing following the program. ***
Featured Speaker: Maya Jasanoff
Maya Jasanoff’s teaching and research focus on the history of modern Britain and the British Empire, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries. Her first book, Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850, investigates British expansion in India and Egypt through the lives of art collectors. It was awarded the 2005 Duff Cooper Prize and was a book of the year selection in numerous British publications including The Economist, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. She has recently completed a new book, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (forthcoming February 2011), which provides the first global history of the loyalists who fled the United States after the American Revolution, and resettled in Canada, the Caribbean, Britain, Sierra Leone, and beyond. Her current research explores the worlds of Joseph Conrad. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times Magazine.
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