Bøger af Brendan McConville

In 1777, North Carolina farmers planned a coup against local patriots. Brendan McConville shows they were motivated not by Crown loyalty but by love of individual and religious liberty-as they understood them. Complicating revolutionary narratives, the plotters feared American independence would usher in the very tyranny it claimed to contest.

Reinterpreting the first century of American history, this book presents an argument that colonial society developed a political culture marked by strong attachment to Great Britain's monarchs. This book shows that political conflicts assumed to foreshadow the events of 1776 were fought out by factions who invoked competing visions of the king.

Examines how the struggle between yeoman farmers and landed gentry shaped public life in the colony. It delineates the beliefs of rioters and upholders of order, both of whom wanted control over the land. It also describes how changes in provincial society led farmers to resort to violence as a means of settling property disputes.