America's first chaplain : the life and times of the Reverend Jacob Duchè /
America's First Chaplain studies the family background, education, ministerial career, ideology, political activities, exile to England, and return to America of Jacob Duché, Anglican minister of Philadelphia's Christ Church during the American Revolution. Duché played a critical role in...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Lanham, Maryland :
Lehigh University Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | America's First Chaplain studies the family background, education, ministerial career, ideology, political activities, exile to England, and return to America of Jacob Duché, Anglican minister of Philadelphia's Christ Church during the American Revolution. Duché played a critical role in the early stages of the revolution as the spiritual mentor of revolutionaries but underwent a process of disaffection as the revolution's goals and leadership changed that culminated in a treason conviction, exile, and incorrect designation as a loyalist.> |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781611461442 1611461448 |