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William Tryon and the Course of Empire : a Life in British Imperial Service by Paul David Nelson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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William Tryon, British army officer and royal governor of NorthCarolina and New York in the years precedingthe AmericanRevolution, was an important participant in the events leading toEnglands loss of her thirteenmainland colonies to republicanrevolutionaries. His life history is interesting in and of itself, but italsohighlights larger scholarly issues that have engaged manyhistorians of the Revolutionary era in recent years.First, his careeras a faithful and talented supporter of Crown prerogatives during the1760s and 1770s is auseful case study of British administrativeineptitude that supplements other works covering the same topic.Although Tryon shrewdly warned officials in London that it wasimpossible for Britain to maintain peacefulcontrol over America ifministers and monarch refused to make timely concessions onquestions of directtaxation, his admonitions went unheeded.--
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Paul David Nelson
- Publisher
- UNC Press Books
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781469639512
- Category
- nonfiction
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