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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 / James Corbett David.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- David, James Corbett, 1977-
- Series:
- Early American histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809.
- Dunmore, John Murray.
- Governors--Virginia--Biography.
- Governors.
- Scots.
- Colonial administrators.
- Virginia.
- Colonial administrators--Virginia--Biography.
- Scots--Virginia--Biography.
- Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- History.
- Virginia--History--1775-1865.
- Virginia--Politics and government--To 1775.
- Politics and government.
- Virginia--Politics and government--1775-1865.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813934242
- 0813934249
- OCLC:
- 823472889
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