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Shenstone, Susan Burgess
SO OBSTINATELY LOYAL - James Moody 1744 - 1809
Montreal / Kingston: McGill - Queen's University Press for Carleton University, 2000, 1st edition, 1st Printing
0886293553 / 9780886293550
First Edition
Hard Cover
Near Fine
Near Fine Photo Cover
-----------hardcover, a Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket, 340 pages, b&w illustrations, ---"This is the biography of James Moody, once-famous, even infamous, partisan of Britain during the American Revolutionary War. His story begins in New Jersey, where he was a "plain contented farmer" before enlisting in a Loyalist provincial corps. Why he, and others like him, did so, defying republican neighbours and seeming political imperatives, is a compelling and largely untold aspect of colonial history. Moody's life was shaped by the growing pains of fledgling nationhood on both sides of the border. Yet he, and people like him, also helped to shape the destinies of nations. This complex weave of precarious existence and nation-building, of adaptation and "staking one's all," emerges clearly from Susan Shenstone's meticulous research and vivid writing."---, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo
141690
Price:
16.63 CDN
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