Dunmore's new world : the extraordinary life of a royal governor in Revolutionary America--with Jacobites, counterfeiters, land schemes, shipwrecks, scalping, Indian politics, runaway slaves, and two illegal royal weddings /

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This book tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the first formal proclamation of emancipation in American history...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: David, James Corbett, 1977-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013
Colección:Early American histories.
Temas:
Dunmore, John Murray, > Earl of, > 1732-1809.
To 1865
Governors > Virginia > Biography.
Colonial administrators > Virginia > Biography.
Scots > Virginia > Biography.
Administrateurs coloniaux > Virginie > Biographies.
Écossais > Virginie > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Colonial administrators.
Governors.
Politics and government.
Scots.
Virginia > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Virginia > History > 1775-1865.
Virginia > Politics and government > To 1775.
Virginia > Politics and government > 1775-1865.
Virginie > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
Virginie > Histoire > 1775-1865.
Virginie > Politique et gouvernement > Jusqu'à 1775.
Virginie > Politique et gouvernement > 1775-1865.
Virginia.
History.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the first formal proclamation of emancipation in American history; he also undertook an unauthorized Indian war in the Ohio Valley, now known as Dunmore’s War, that was instrumental in opening the Kentucky country to white settlement. In this biography, the author brings together a rich cast of characters as he follows Dunmore on his perilous path through the Atlantic world from 1745 to 1809. Within this single narrative, Dunmore interacts with Jacobites, slaves, land speculators, frontiersmen, Scots merchants, poor white fishermen, the French, the Spanish, Shawnees, Creeks, patriots, loyalists, princes, kings, and a host of others. This history captures the vibrant diversity of the political universe that Dunmore inhabited alongside the likes of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. A transgressive imperialist, Dunmore had an astounding career that charts the boundaries of what was possible in the Atlantic world in the Age of Revolution.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813934259
0813934257
1299673325
9781299673328

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