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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Autor principal: David, James Corbett, 1977-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Dunmore, John Murray, > Earl of, > 1732-1809.
Scots.
Politics and government.
Governors.
Colonial administrators.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Écossais > Virginie > Biographies.
Administrateurs coloniaux > Virginie > Biographies.
Scots > Virginia > Biography.
Colonial administrators > Virginia > Biography.
Governors > Virginia > Biography.
Virginia.
Virginie > Politique et gouvernement > 1775-1865.
Virginie > Politique et gouvernement > Jusqu'à 1775.
Virginie > Histoire > 1775-1865.
Virginie > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale)
Virginia > Politics and government > 1775-1865.
Virginia > Politics and government > To 1775.
Virginia > History > 1775-1865.
Virginia > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Biographies.
History.
Electronic books.
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