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Dunmore's New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America--with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, ... Royal Weddings (Early American Histories)
James Corbett David
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Description for Dunmore's New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America--with Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shipwrecks, ... Royal Weddings (Early American Histories)
Paperback. Series: Early American Histories. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: B; HBWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Dunmore's 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 ... Read more
Dunmore's 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Early American Histories
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813937649
SKU
V9780813937649
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About James Corbett David
James Corbett David received a Ph.D. in history from the College of William and Mary, USA.
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