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Pennsylvania Politics 1746-1770: The Movement for Royal Government and Its Consequences
By (Author) James H. Hutson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
History of the Americas
320.974802
Hardback
276
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
539g
The Quaker Party's campaign in 1764 to replace Pennsylvania's proprietary government with royal government prefigures, in some ways, the colonies' struggle against George III. This is the key, in James Hutson's analysis, to Pennsylvania politics in the decades before the Revolution. In a lucidly written narrative, he follows the efforts of the Quak