#  Jasanoff, Maya - Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World 

 





March 06, 2012

 

 

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Maya Jasanoff. Random House, March 6, 2012.  
[Publisher's Link](http://www.randomhouse.com/book/86852/libertys-exiles-by-maya-jasanoff) 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. *Liberty’s Exiles* tells their story. This surprising new account of the founding of the United States and the shaping of the post-revolutionary world traces extraordinary journeys... [Read more](http://www.randomhouse.com/book/86852/libertys-exiles-by-maya-jasanoff)

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  **[Maya Jasanoff](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/maya-jasanoff)**  
Coolidge Professor of History  
Harvard College Professor

 Maya Jasanoff’s teaching and research range from the history of the British Empire into global history. Her new book *The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World* (Penguin Press, forthcoming November 2017) examines the dynamics of modern globalization through the life and times of the novelist Joseph Conrad. Her first book, *Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850* (Knopf, 2005), explores British expansion in India and Egypt through the lives of art collectors. It was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize and was a book of the year selection in numerous publications including *The Economist*, *The Observer*, and *The Sunday Times*. Jasanoff's 2011 book *Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World* (Knopf, 2011) presents 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. *Liberty's Exiles* won numerous distinctions including the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction, the George Washington Book Prize, and a Recognition of Excellence from the Cundill Prize in History; it was also shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. [Read more...](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/maya-jasanoff)

 

 





 

 

 



 

 

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