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King and People in Provincial Massachusetts
Richard L. Bushman
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Description for King and People in Provincial Massachusetts
Paperback. King and People in Provincial Massachusetts Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
The American revolutionaries themselves believed the change from monarchy to republic was the essence of the Revolution. King and People in Provincial Massachusetts explores what monarchy meant to Massachusetts under its second charter and why the momentous change to republican government came about. Richard L. Bushman argues that monarchy entailed more than having a king as head of state: it was an elaborate political culture with implications for social organization as well. Massachusetts, moreover, was entirely loyal to the king and thoroughly imbued with that culture. Why then did the colonies become republican in 1776? The change cannot be attributed ... Read more
The American revolutionaries themselves believed the change from monarchy to republic was the essence of the Revolution. King and People in Provincial Massachusetts explores what monarchy meant to Massachusetts under its second charter and why the momentous change to republican government came about. Richard L. Bushman argues that monarchy entailed more than having a king as head of state: it was an elaborate political culture with implications for social organization as well. Massachusetts, moreover, was entirely loyal to the king and thoroughly imbued with that culture. Why then did the colonies become republican in 1776? The change cannot be attributed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
Series
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807843987
SKU
V9780807843987
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About Richard L. Bushman
Richard L. Bushman is the author of From Puritan to Yankee: Character and the Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 and the editor of The Great Awakening: Documents on the Revival of Religion, 1740-1745.
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