Dunmore's New World: The Extraordinary Life of a Royal Governor in Revolutionary America--With Jacobites, Counterfeiters, Land Schemes, Shi
(Part of the Early American Histories Series)
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Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the first formal proclamation of emancipation in American history; he also undertook an unauthorized Indian war in the Ohio Valley, now known as Dunmore's War, that was instrumental in opening the...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0813934249
ISBN13:9780813934242
Release Date:August 2013
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:1.22 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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