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A rope of sand : the colonial agents, British politics, and the American Revolution / Michael G. Kammen
by Kammen, Michael G
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Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1968. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 349 pp.: illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. Contents; Institutional operations and the imperial crisis, 1756-1766 -- Decades of development: the agencies, 1624-1755 -- A profile of agency, 1756-1766 -- The agents and their constituents -- The agents and colonial administration -- The agents and their allies -- The agents and British politics -- The agents and the Stamp Act crisis, 1765-1766 -- Institutional decline and imperial deterioration, 1766-1775 -- A profile of the agency, 1766-1773 -- The agents of the great debate -- Undermined from abroad: the agents and their constituents -- A loss of cooperation: the agents and their allies -- A decline in influence: the agents and imperial administration -- The agents and the final crisis, 1774-1775 -- A summing up. Subjects; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. Colonial agents United States. Politics and government.
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- Title
- A rope of sand : the colonial agents, British politics, and the American Revolution / Michael G. Kammen
- Author
- Kammen, Michael G
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- Hardcover
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- 1st edition
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- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
- Date Published
- 1968
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