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The King's Three Faces - The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776 (Paperback, New edition)
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The King's Three Faces - The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776 (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
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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.
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