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Nursing Fathers: American Colonists' Conception of English Protestant Kingship,
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Nursing Fathers: American Colonists' Conception of English Protestant Kingship, 1688-1776 Hardcover - 1999

by Benjamin Lewis Price


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The rhetoric of Revolutionary America successfully cast King George III as an oppressive tyrant who crushed his North American colonists through excessive fiscal demands and political constraints. Yet for nearly a century prior to the Revolution, the English king had occupied a vital and overwhelmingly positive role in the political imagination of his colonial subjects. In this insightful new book on the subject, Benjamin Price argues that for most of the eighteenth century North American colonists viewed themselves as Englishmen, loyal to the monarchy and to the English constitution as recast by the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Price astutely analyzes the political ideology of kingship in colonial America, concluding that it was only on the very eve of the Revolution that most colonists rejected the vision of the king as a 'nursing father, ' that is, as a 'benevolent and just' protector of their lives, property, civil rights, and religious freedom. This fresh and exciting book should find a wide readership among historians of colonial America, early modern England, and Anglo-American political theory

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  • Title Nursing Fathers: American Colonists' Conception of English Protestant Kingship, 1688-1776
  • Author Benjamin Lewis Price
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Lexington Books
  • Date 1999-03
  • ISBN 9780739100516 / 0739100513
  • Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.88 x 5.7 x 0.76 in (25.10 x 14.48 x 1.93 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 17th Century
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Political culture - United States - History, Public opinion - United States - History -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-53034
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973

About the author

Benjamin Lewis Price is an Instructor at Louisiana State University.
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