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North Carolina's revolutionary founders /
This collection of essays profiles a diverse array of North Carolinians, all of whom had a hand in the founding of the state and the United States of America. It includes stories of how men who stood together to fight the British soon chose opposing sides in political debates over the ratification o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. North Carolina in an age of revolution / Jeff Broadwater and Troy L. Kickler
- Part I. The revolutionaries. Treasonous tea: the Edenton Tea Party of 1774 / Maggie Hartley Mitchell
- Declaring independence: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, and John Penn / Jeff Broadwater
- Part II. The West. Caught between two fires: the Catawba and the Cherokee choose sides in the American Revolution / James MacDonald
- Our common country: John Sevier and the American Revolution / Michael Toomey
- Part III. The federalists. Hugh Williamson: North Carolina federalist / Jennifer Davis-Doyle
- An ordinary founder: Richard Dobbs Spaight Sr. / Karl Rodabaugh
- The political views of Richard Caswell and the founding of the new nation / Lloyd Johnson
- James Iredell: revolutionist, constitutionalist, jurist / Willis P. Whichard
- Part IV. The anti-federalists. Samuel Spencer, anti-federalist / Jason Stroud
- Willie Jones / Kyle Scott
- Part V. The legatees of the Revolution. William R. Davie: North Carolina's patriot partisan / Scott King-Owen
- John Chavis: quiet leader of an early revolution / Benjamin R. Justesen
- Two North Carolinians, same goal, different approaches: an examination of the political lives and philosophies of Nathaniel Macon and Archibald D. Murphey / Troy L. Kickler.