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The royalist revolution : monarchy and the American founding / Eric Nelson.
LIBRA JA84.U5 N35 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelson, Eric, 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutional history.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--18th century.
- United States.
- Political science--United States--History--18th century.
- Political science.
- History.
- Constitutional history--United States--18th century.
- Monarchy.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 390 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Patriot Royalism: the Stuart monarchy and the turn to prerogative, 1768-1775
- "One step farther, and we are got back to where we set out from": patriots and the Royalist theory of representation
- "The Lord alone shall be king of America": 1776, Common Sense, and the Republican turn
- "The old government, as near as possible": Royalism in the wilderness, 1776-1780
- "All know that a single magistrate is not a king": Royalism and the constitution of 1787.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-374) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 067473534X
- 9780674735347
- OCLC:
- 880122463
- Publisher Number:
- 99960360557
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