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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Main Author: David, James Corbett, 1977-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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