Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution

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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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Main Author: Walmsley, Andrew Stephen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, 1998.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hutchinson, Thomas, > 1711-1780.
Governors.
War > Causes.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Governors > Massachusetts > Biography.
United States.
Massachusetts.
Massachusetts > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale)
États-Unis > Histoire > 1775-1783 (Revolution) > Causes.
Massachusetts > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Causes.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: Departure
  • CHAPTER ONE. Boston's Fortunate Son
  • CHAPTER TWO. "The Butt of a Faction"
  • CHAPTER THREE. Enter the Crowd
  • CHAPTER FOUR. "An Ill Temper and a Factious Spirit"
  • CHAPTER FIVE. John Mein and Christopher Sneider: Two Martyrs
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Deepening Crisis
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Hutchinson's Final Humiliation
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Exile
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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