William Knox : : The Life and Thought of an Eighteenth-Century Imperialist / / Leland J. Bellot.
Colonial expert and pamphleteer William Knox has received attention in virtually every major study of the American Revolution, yet this is the first biography of Knox ever written. Knox is best known as undersecretary of state in the American Department of the British government from 1770 to 1782. A...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1977 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. "The First Rudiments of My Political Education': Childhood & Youth in Ireland, 1732-1757
- 2. "Legislators . . . That No King Can Govern Nor No God Can Please": Georgia, 1757-1762
- 3.'" Dancing Attendance upon People in Office': Imperial Problems & the Georgia Agency, 1762-1765
- 4. "An Offer . . . Advantageous & Honourable to You": Pamphleteering & the Pursuit of Office, 1765-1770
- 5. "The Dye Is Cast & More Mischief Will Follow": Conflicts of Interest & the Coming of the American Revolution, 1770-1775
- 6. "Wrath My Dear Lord Is Gone Forth": The American War, 1775-1778
- 7. "Firmness & Temperance with a Readiness at Expedients": The American War, 1778-1782
- 8. "I Will Do No Mischief, But I Will Stimulate the Minister to Do Good": Calamities, Public & Private, 1782-1790
- 9. "I Quitted the Vortex of Politics": The Elder Statesman, 1790-1810
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index