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Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution.

Rarely in American history has a political figure been so pilloried and despised as Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts and an ardent loyalist of the Crown in the days leading up to the American revolution. In this narrative and analytic life of Hutchinson, the first since Bernard Bailyn�...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walmsley, Andrew Stephen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 1998.
Colección:American social experience series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Rarely in American history has a political figure been so pilloried and despised as Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts and an ardent loyalist of the Crown in the days leading up to the American revolution. In this narrative and analytic life of Hutchinson, the first since Bernard Bailyn's Pulitzer-Prize-winning biography a quarter century ago, Andrew Stephen Walmsley traces Hutchinson's decline from well- respected member of Boston's governing class to America's leading object of revolutionary animus. Walmsley argues that Hutchinson, rather than simply a victim of his inability to un.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (229 pages).
ISBN:9780814738177
0814738176