Screen LibraryPennsylvania politics 1746-1770 : the movement for royal government and its consequences /
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 Revoluti...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. : |
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[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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 Quaker dominated Assembly outraged by Thomas Penn's inflexible government and representing a society that had matured economically, politically, and socially to bring about royal government, on Benjamin Franklin's advice, as a less restrictive alternative.Mr. Hutson's interpretation clarifies the major realignment of political parties (Quaker, Presbyterian, and Proprietary) that the movement occasioned, the impact of the frontiersmen (notably the Paxton Boys) on provincial politics, and the role played by important political figures like Franklin.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(278pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781400869565 |
| Index Number: | F152 |
| CLC: | K712.9 |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I. Troubles with Thomas Penn -- Chapter II. The Decision to Request Royal Government -- Chapter III. The Campaign for Royal Government -- Chapter IV. The Mirage of Royal Government -- Conclusion. The Implications of the Royal Government Movement -- Index. |