Liberty’s Exiles is part of history’s new turn to imperial and transnational spaces. Jasanoff argues that the discipline’s dependence on the nation state’s framework has driven the loyalists’ out of history. There have been stories about individual experiences. But “their worldwide dispersal has never been completely reconstructed.”(p.10). While it is impossible to reconstruct the experiences of thousands of individuals, she chooses a representative sampling that disputes the idea of the loyalist as a white, landed, conservative. Her story also narrates the plight of black and Native American loyalists who joined the thousands that fled the United States.
