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Dunmore's new world

David, James Corbett, 1977-

Dunmore's new world the extraordinary life of a royal governor in Revolutionary America--with Jacobites, counterfeiters, land schemes, shipwrecks, scalping, Indian politics, runaway slaves, and two illegal royal weddings / [electronic resource] : James Corbett David. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (viii, 270 pages :) illustrations ; - Early American histories .

Includes bibliographical references ( p. 237-260) and index.

Family Politics, 1745-1770 -- The Absence of Empire, 1770-1773 -- Promised Land, 1773-1774 -- A Refugee's Revolution, 1775-1781 -- Abiding Ambitions, 1781-1796 -- Conclusion, 1796-1809 -- A Note on Method : Biography and Empire.

ISBN: 9780813934259 0813934257

Subjects--Personal Names:
Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Scots--Virginia--Biography.
Colonial administrators--Virginia--Biography.
Governors--Virginia--Biography.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Virginia--Politics and government--1775-1865.
Virginia--Politics and government--To 1775.
Virginia--History--1775-1865.
Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: F229.D89 / D38 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 975.5/02092 B