Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson

AvBernard Bailyn

Häftad, Engelska, 1976

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“This book,” Bernard Bailyn writes, “depicts the fortunes of a conservative in a time of radical upheaval and deals with problems of public disorder and ideological commitment.” It is at the same time a dramatic account of the origins of the American Revolution from the viewpoint, not of the winners who became the Founding Fathers, but of the losers, the Loyalists. By portraying the ordeal of the last civilian royal governor of Massachusetts, Mr. Bailyn explains “what the human reality was against which the victors struggled” and in doing so makes the story of the Revolution fuller and more comprehensible.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1976-01-01
Mått:153 x 235 x 28 mm
Vikt:640 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:448
Förlag:Harvard University Press
ISBN:9780674641617

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Biografi: historia, politik och försvar inom Biografier

Mer om författaren

Bernard Bailyn was Adams University Professor, Emeritus, and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

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As political biography, The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson is without equal in the voluminous literature on the Revolution. No other public figure of the Revolution has found such skillful and sensitive attention.

Innehållsförteckning

* Preface * Success of the Acquisitive Man: Portrait of the Provincial Bourgeois * The Face of Revolution * Law and Order, Liberty and Empire * The Furies * The Captive * The Failure of Reason * The "Scape-Goat" * Exile * World's End * Epilogue * Hutchinson Genealogy * Appendix. The Losers: Notes on the Historiography of Loyalism * Note on the Hutchinson Manuscripts * Index