Imaginary Friendship in the American Revolution - John Adams and Jonathan Sewall

This book is a microhistory of how friendship operated in the American Revolution. It explores the friendship of two political adversaries whose careers coincided with and were shaped by the escalating imperial crisis of 1760-75: the Patriot and future US president John Adams and the prominent Loyalist Jonathan Sewall.

List of contents

Prologue: History 1. Friendship 2. John and Jonathan 3. Politics 4. The King’s Law 5. Imagining Revolution 6. Massachusettensis and Novanglus 7. Debate 8. The British Question 9. Revolution. Epilogue: War and Reunion

About the author

Colin Nicolson is Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling.

Owen Dudley Edwards is an Irish historian and former Reader in Commonwealth and American History at the University of Edinburgh.

Summary

This book is a microhistory of how friendship operated in the American Revolution. It explores the friendship of two political adversaries whose careers coincided with and were shaped by the escalating imperial crisis of 1760-75: the Patriot and future US president John Adams and the prominent Loyalist Jonathan Sewall.

Product details

• Authors: Owen Dudley Edwards, Owen Dudley Edwards, Colin Nicolson, Colin Dudley Edwards Nicolson, Nicolson Colin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367664350
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66435-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Perspectives on Early America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), c 1500 onwards to present day, Historiography, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Specific wars and campaigns, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), American War of Independence, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions