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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.

Van Pelt Library F229.D89 D38 2013
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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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