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This Unfriendly Soil
Neil Mackinnon
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Description for This Unfriendly Soil
Paperback. Following the American Revolution, more than 20,000 loyalists fled to Nova Scotia, doubling the population in a single year. Neil MacKinnon provides the first detailed account of this great wave of immigrants, their exodus and settlement, their adjustment to the new land, and their effect upon its people and institutions. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Loyalists in Nova Scotia hoped that their anticipated prosperity, to be achieved with British aid, would show that the American rebellion had been a terrible mistake. But prosperity was elusive. The loyalists were disappointed not only by their treatment at the hands of the British government - their reluctant benefactor - but also by the apparent unwillingness of the government and the people of Nova Scotia to recognise their sacrifice and encourage their advancement. This sense of opposition from the existing community made their experience different from that of loyalists elsewhere and contributed to the intensity and ... Read more
Loyalists in Nova Scotia hoped that their anticipated prosperity, to be achieved with British aid, would show that the American rebellion had been a terrible mistake. But prosperity was elusive. The loyalists were disappointed not only by their treatment at the hands of the British government - their reluctant benefactor - but also by the apparent unwillingness of the government and the people of Nova Scotia to recognise their sacrifice and encourage their advancement. This sense of opposition from the existing community made their experience different from that of loyalists elsewhere and contributed to the intensity and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773507197
SKU
V9780773507197
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99-15
Reviews for This Unfriendly Soil
"MacKinnon writes well: clearly, gently, without jargon or pretension. His book is therefore accessible to a wide range of readers from high school to graduate school, while also being well documented and showing all the signs of scholarship." Choice "an excellent job of condensing the results of loyalist scholarship...in relation to the early history of American loyqalist refugees in Nova ... Read more