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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Walmsley, Andrew Stephen
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : NYU Press, 1998.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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's Pulitzer-Prize-winning biography a quarter century ago, Andrew Stephen Walmsley traces Hutchinson's decline from well- respected member of Boston's governing class to America's leading object of revolutionary animus. Walmsley argues that Hutchinson, rather than simply a victim of his inability to un.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9780814738177

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