Inventing the Loyalists: The Ontario Loyalist Tradition and the Creation of Usable Pasts

by Norman Knowles

The Loyalists have often been credited with planting a coherent and unified tradition that has been passed on virtually unchanged to subsequent generations and that continues to define Ontario's political culture. Challenging past scholarship, Norman Knowles argues that there never has been consensus on the defining characteristics of the Loyalist tradition. He suggests that, in fact, the very concept of tradition has constantly been subject to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080207913X
• ISBN13: 9780802079138
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"