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A State Divided: Opposition in Pennsylvania to the American Revolution

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

A State Divided: Opposition in Pennsylvania to the American Revolution

ISBN:

9780313257285

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Praeger Publishers Inc

Publication Date:

25th November 1987

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Dewey:

973.748

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

364

Dimensions:

Width 156mm, Height 235mm

Weight:

822g

Description

Here, is the story of the revolution told from the side of the losers--the Tories or the disaffected--as it took place in Pennsylvania. Their disaffection was largely cause, however, not by loyalty to England and her king, but by local factors within Pennsylvania, such as religious and political divisions, personal antagonisms, and rivalries. This volume traces the development of that opposition as the mother country began to enforce a stricter colonial policy in the 1760s. Ousterhout focuses on the disaffected in the pre-war decade, showing their increasing apprehensiveness about the escalating colonial anti-British measures and their belief that those measures were causing, rather than responding to, the increasingly violent British actions. The volume further explores the punishments and harassments against the disaffected that were administered by local crowds as well as by legal agencies during the Revolutionary period.

Author Bio

ANNE M. OUSTERHOUT is Professor of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University. Her articles have appeared in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography.

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