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 /
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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2013
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Family Politics, 1745-1770
- The Absence of Empire, 1770-1773
- Promised Land, 1773-1774
- A Refugee's Revolution, 1775-1781
- Abiding Ambitions, 1781-1796
- Conclusion, 1796-1809
- A Note on Method : Biography and Empire.