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The king's three faces, the rise & fall of royal America, 1688-1776, Brendan McConville

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The king's three faces

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Brendan McConville

the rise & fall of royal America, 1688-1776

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. 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

Introduction: Princes and Popes in the American Provinces -- Part One: The British Peace -- 1. Tyranny's Kiss -- In Thomas Hobbes's Study -- Subcultures -- Tyranny's Kiss 000 Popery Pickled -- From Covenant to Contract -- 2. The March of Empire -- Samuel Sewall's Lament -- Pope's Day Established -- The March of Empire -- The Empire Composite -- William Stephens Brings the Empire to Georgia -- The Historic Empire Inverted -- 3. Remembrance of Kings Past -- Theories of History, Modes of Reasoning -- The English Civil Wars in Provincial Political Memory 000 Memories of a Violent Past -- Oliver and Charles, William and Mary ... and Empire -- 4. The Passions of Empire -- <"This Celestial Venus" -- Romaphobia -- Envy, Desire, and the Commodification of Monarchy -- The Consumption of Images -- Of Ralph and Will -- Part Two: Three Faces -- 5. American Stories Retold -- Anglicization in the Imperial Marches -- Population and the Problem of Patriarchal Desires -- Zenger Reconsidered 000 American Stories Retold -- 6. In the Name of the Father 000 In the Name of the Father -- In Pharaoh's Name -- The American Concert -- Of Dynasty and Dissent -- 7.: Neoabsolutism -- Time Amended -- A Newtonian Sun King -- Divine Right Reborn -- Neoabsolutism and Land in the American Provinces -- 8. Dreams of a New Empire 000 Designs Shaped by Defense -- America as Ireland? -- An India for Indians? -- Counterfactual Speculations -- Dinner in Marseilles -- Part Three: A Funeral Fit for a King 9. History Fufilled, History Betrayed -- Love, Patriarchy, and the Imperial Constitution -- Dynastic Conflict, Anti-Catholicism, and Conspiracy Theory -- History Fulfilled, History Betrayed -- Shakespeare, Satire, and Subversion in the Imperial Crisis -- 10. A Funeral Fit for a King 000 Jonathan Saywood's Journey -- A Terror of Bodies, A Terror of Words -- Denying the King -- The Iconoclasm -- Epilogue: Of Princes and the People

King's 3 faces