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The king's three faces : the rise & fall of royal America, 1688-1776 / Brendan McConville.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McConville, Brendan, 1962- author.
- Series:
- Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monarchy--Great Britain--Public opinion--History--18th century.
- Monarchy.
- Public opinion--United States--History--18th century.
- Public opinion.
- Political culture--United States--History--18th century.
- Political culture.
- United States--Politics and government--To 1775.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
- Great Britain--Foreign public opinion, American--History--18th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Reinterpreting the first century of American history, Brendan McConville argues that colonial society developed a political culture marked by strong attachment to Great Britain's monarchs. This intense allegiance continued almost until the moment of independence, an event defined by an emotional break with the king. By reading American history forward from the seventeenth century rather than backward from the Revolution, McConville shows that political conflicts long assumed to foreshadow the events of 1776 were in fact fought out by factions who invoked competing visions of the king and appropriated royal rites rather than used abstract republican rights or pro-democratic proclamations. The American Revolution, McConville contends, emerged out of the fissure caused by the unstable mix of affective attachments to the king and a weak imperial government. Sure to provoke debate, The King's Three Faces offers a powerful counterthesis to dominant American historiography.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Princes and Popes in the American Provinces; PART ONE: THE BRITISH PEACE; Chapter One: Tyranny's Kiss; In Thomas Hobbes's Study; Subcultures; Tyranny's Kiss; Popery Pickled; From Covenant to Contract; Chapter Two: The March of Empire; Samuel Sewall's Lament; Pope's Day Established; The March of Empire; The Empire Composite; William Stephens Brings the Empire to Georgia; The Historic Empire Inverted; Chapter Three: Remembrance of Kings Past; Theories of History, Modes of Reasoning
- The English Civil Wars in Provincial Political MemoryMemories of a Violent Past; Oliver and Charles, William and Mary . . . and Empire; Chapter Four: The Passions of Empire; ""This Celestial Venus""; Romaphobia; Envy, Desire, and the Commodification of Monarchy; The Consumption of Images; Of Ralph and Will; PART TWO: THREE FACES; Chapter Five: The Problem with Patriarchy; Anglicization in the Imperial Marches; Population and the Problem of Patriarchal Desires; Zenger Reconsidered; American Stories Retold; Chapter Six: In the Name of the Father; In the Name of the Father; In Pharaoh's Name
- The American ConcertOf Dynasty and Dissent; Chapter Seven: Neoabsolutism; Time Amended; A Newtonian Sun King; Divine Right Reborn; Neoabsolutism and Land in the American Provinces; Chapter Eight: Dreams of a New Empire; Designs Shaped by Defense; America as Ireland?; An India for Indians?; Counterfactual Speculations; Dinner in Marseilles; PART THREE: A FUNERAL FIT FOR A KING; Chapter Nine: History Fulfilled, History Betrayed; Love, Patriarchy, and the Imperial Constitution; Dynastic Conflict, Anti-Catholicism, and Conspiracy Theory; History Fulfilled, History Betrayed
- Shakespeare, Satire, and Subversion in the Imperial CrisisChapter Ten: A Funeral Fit for a King; Jonathan Saywood's Journey; A Terror of Bodies, A Terror of Words; Denying the King; The Iconoclasm; Epilogue: Of Princes and the People; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908806-0-4
- 979-88-908806-1-1
- 0-8078-3886-1
- 1-4696-0093-5
- OCLC:
- 966926210
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