The King's Three Faces : The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Princes and Popes in the American Provinces -- PART ONE: THE BRITISH PEACE -- Chapter One: Tyranny's Kiss -- In Thomas Hobbes's Study -- Subcultures -- Tyranny's Kiss -- Popery Pickled -- From Covenant to Contract -- Chapter Two: The March of Empire -- Samuel Sewall's Lament -- Pope's Day Established -- The March of Empire -- The Empire Composite -- William Stephens Brings the Empire to Georgia -- The Historic Empire Inverted -- Chapter Three: Remembrance of Kings Past -- Theories of History, Modes of Reasoning -- The English Civil Wars in Provincial Political Memory -- Memories of a Violent Past -- Oliver and Charles, William and Mary . . . and Empire -- Chapter Four: The Passions of Empire -- This Celestial Venus -- Romaphobia -- Envy, Desire, and the Commodification of Monarchy -- The Consumption of Images -- Of Ralph and Will -- PART TWO: THREE FACES -- Chapter Five: The Problem with Patriarchy -- Anglicization in the Imperial Marches -- Population and the Problem of Patriarchal Desires -- Zenger Reconsidered -- American Stories Retold -- Chapter Six: In the Name of the Father -- In the Name of the Father -- In Pharaoh's Name -- The American Concert -- Of Dynasty and Dissent -- Chapter Seven: Neoabsolutism -- Time Amended -- A Newtonian Sun King -- Divine Right Reborn -- Neoabsolutism and Land in the American Provinces -- Chapter Eight: Dreams of a New Empire -- Designs Shaped by Defense -- America as Ireland? -- An India for Indians? -- Counterfactual Speculations -- Dinner in Marseilles -- PART THREE: A FUNERAL FIT FOR A KING -- Chapter Nine: History Fulfilled, History Betrayed -- Love, Patriarchy, and the Imperial Constitution -- Dynastic Conflict, Anti-Catholicism, and Conspiracy Theory -- History Fulfilled, History Betrayed.

Shakespeare, Satire, and Subversion in the Imperial Crisis -- Chapter Ten: A Funeral Fit for a King -- Jonathan Saywood's Journey -- A Terror of Bodies, A Terror of Words -- Denying the King -- The Iconoclasm -- Epilogue: Of Princes and the People -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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