Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World

by Maya Jasanoff

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  ILLUSTRATIONS CREDITS

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  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Maya Jasanoff was educated at Harvard, Cambridge, and Yale, and is currently an associate professor of history at Harvard University. Her first book, Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750–1850, was awarded the 2005 Duff Cooper Prize and was a Book of the Year selection in numerous publications including The Economist, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. She has recently been a fellow of the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and has contributed essays to the London Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, and the New York Review of Books.