Pennsylvania Politics 1746-1770: The Movement for Royal Government and Its Consequences

by James H. Hutson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691619832
• ISBN13: 9780691619835
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"