Imaginary Friendship in the American Revolution John Adams and Jonathan Sewall Perspectives on Early America Series
Auteurs : Nicolson Colin, Dudley Edwards Owen
Imaginary Friendship is the first in-depth study of the onset of the American Revolution through the prism of friendship, focusing on future US president John Adams and leading Loyalist Jonathan Sewall. The book is part biography, revealing how they shaped each other?s progress, and part political history, exploring their intriguing dangerous quest to clean up colonial politics. Literary history examines the personal dimension of discourse, resolving how Adams?s presumption of Sewall?s authorship of the Loyalist tracts Massachusettensis influenced his own magnum opus, Novanglus. The mystery is not why Adams presumed Sewall was his adversary in 1775but why he was impelled to answer him.
Prologue: History 1. Friendship 2. John and Jonathan 3. Politics 4. The King’s Law 5. Imagining Revolution 6. Massachusettensis and Novanglus 7. Debate 8. The British Question 9. Revolution. Epilogue: War and Reunion
Colin Nicolson is Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling.
Owen Dudley Edwards is an Irish historian and former Reader in Commonwealth and American History at the University of Edinburgh.
Date de parution : 09-2020
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 12-2018
15.2x22.9 cm
Thème d’Imaginary Friendship in the American Revolution :
Mots-clés :
King Ship; Charles Read; Owen Dudley Edwards; George III; Adams-Sewall friendship; William III; American Revolution; King George III; patriot rebellion; Richard III; colonial politics; Nolle Prosequi; Loyalist counterrevolution; Ship Owners; Court Circuit; Vice Admiralty Court; Niles’s Weekly Register; Boston Massacre Trials; General Thomas Gage; East India Company Tea; Boston Port Act; Poynings’s Law; Bristol County; Younger Man; Familiar Letter Writing; Parliamentary Supremacy