The King's Three Faces: The Rise & Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo) - Softcover

McConville, Brendan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807858668 ISBN 13: 9780807858660

Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press, 2007

Synopsis

Reinterpreting the first century of American history, Brendan McConville argues that colonial society developed a political culture marked by strong attachment to Great Britain's monarchs. This intense allegiance continued almost until the moment of independence, an event defined by an emotional break with the king. By reading American history forward from the seventeenth century rather than backward from the Revolution, McConville shows that political conflicts long assumed to foreshadow the events of 1776 were in fact fought out by factions who invoked competing visions of the king and appropriated royal rites rather than used abstract republican rights or pro-democratic proclamations. The American Revolution, McConville contends, emerged out of the fissure caused by the unstable mix of affective attachments to the king and a weak imperial government. Sure to provoke debate, The King's Three Faces offers a powerful counterthesis to dominant American historiography.

About this title

Book Description:

"Expands commonplace observations about the political tactics of resistance and revolution into a revisionist view of eighteenth-century American development. . . . An interesting book."-- International History Review

About the Author:

Brendan McConville is professor of history at Boston University and author of These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0807858668
• ISBN 13: 9780807858660
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322