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King and Congress: The Transfer of Political Legitimacy, 1774-1776
By (Author) Jerrilyn Greene Marston
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Political science and theory
973.31
Paperback
478
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
822g
A persuasive reassessment of the nature of the institution that was in the forefront of the American revolutionary struggle with Great Britain--the Continental Congress. Providing a completely new perspective on the history of the First and Second Continental Congresses before independence, the author argues that American expectations regarding the