The Study On The Stance Of The North American Imperial Officers In The Pre-Revolutionary Era

1760s and 1770 s witnessed the British American colonies' defiance against the British taxation authority upon colonies and their request of equal chances in the international commerce and trade,which meant the self-determination right to the colonies.Chinese scholarship of early American history generally holds the view that American Loyalists were those who went against the anti-British taxation movement among north American colonies.Scholars believe that the loyalists were the enemies of democratic civil movement among north American colonies,and thus the American independence from their mother country Britain could not be forbidden.Based on the re-examination of the American Loyalists' pamphlets which were written with the vivid passion of the pre-revolutionary time by the vocal of the historical participants,this thesis reveals that there were various interest parties remaining within the colonial government.The American Patriots who proposed the independence advocation and American Loyalists who believed in the British ideology debated fiercely on the British-American relationship and transformed into each other at some points.Whatever historical character that Loyalists and Patriots had played in the prerevolutionary era,either the colonial supervisor or leaders of democratic movement among the colonies,they both acted as the tomb-diggers of the British domination upon its north American colonies.There were various combating political culture and personal interest existed in the American revolutionary years.Analyzing the connotation of the loyalists' ideology as well as their exacerbate effect upon the evenradical politics against Britain among north American colonies,this thesis provides a reasonable explanation to Loyalists' alternative attitude towards Patriots,which were the British privilege and the colonial commercial interest of the American Loyalists.In doing so,this thesis depicts a constantly changing complexity in the pre-Revolutionary era of north America.Connecting American Loyalists' ideology to the shaping of the political identity of the span-Atlantic world,this thesis is about to communicate with the American scholarship of early American history which have been in the academic trend on the history of political culture.