Pennsylvania Politics 1746-1770: The Movement for Royal Government and Its Consequences (Princeton Legacy Library) - Softcover

Hutson, James H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691619832 ISBN 13: 9780691619835

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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James H. Hutson has been Chief of the Manuscripts Division at the Library of Congress since 1982. He has previously held positions as Coordinator of the American Revolution Bicentennial Programs at the Library of Congress, and as lecturer at the College of William and Mary and Yale University. Among his many publications, Dr Hutson has written Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (6th printing, 2002); Forgotten Features of the Founding: The Recovery of Religious Themes in Early American History (2003); and The Founders on Religion (2005).

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0691619832
• ISBN 13: 9780691619835
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276