David James Corbett Dunmore`s New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America--With Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shi 9780813937649

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Автор: David James Corbett
Название: Dunmore`s New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America--With Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shi
ISBN: 9780813937649
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Биографии и подлинные истории

Американская война за независимость

ISBN-10: 0813937647
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 280
Вес: 0.36 кг.
Дата издания: 30.03.2015
Серия: Early american histories
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 12 black & white illustrations, 5 maps
Размер: 224 x 145 x 18
Ключевые слова: Biography & True Stories,American War of Independence
Подзаголовок: The extraordinary life of a royal governor in revolutionary america--with jacobites, counterfeiters, land schemes, shipwrecks, ... royal weddings
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Dunmores New World 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; he also undertook an unauthorized Indian war in the Ohio Valley, now known as Dunmore’s War, that was instrumental in opening the Kentucky country to white settlement. In this entertaining biography, James Corbett David brings together a rich cast of characters as he follows Dunmore on his perilous path through the Atlantic world from 1745 to 1809.Dunmore was a Scots aristocrat who, even with a family history of treason, managed to obtain a commission in the British army, a seat in the House of Lords, and three executive appointments in the American colonies. He was an unusual figure, deeply invested in the imperial system but quick to break with convention. Despite his 1775 proclamation promising freedom to slaves of Virginia rebels, Dunmore was himself a slaveholder at a time when the African slave trade was facing tremendous popular opposition in Great Britain. He also supported his daughter throughout the scandal that followed her secret, illegal marriage to the youngest son of George III—a relationship that produced two illegitimate children, both first cousins of Queen Victoria.Within this single narrative, Dunmore interacts with Jacobites, slaves, land speculators, frontiersmen, Scots merchants, poor white fishermen, the French, the Spanish, Shawnees, Creeks, patriots, loyalists, princes, kings, and a host of others. This history captures the vibrant diversity of the political universe that Dunmore inhabited alongside the likes of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. A transgressive imperialist, Dunmore had an astounding career that charts the boundaries of what was possible in the Atlantic world in the Age of Revolution.
Дополнительное описание: Specific wars and campaigns|Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare)|Biography and non-fiction prose

Dunmore`s New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America--With Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shi, David James Corbett