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Even after he returned to Great Britain, where he represented Scottish constituencies in Parliament, he maintained an interest in Florida's fate, not least because he held tracts of land in East Florida that yielded profits from indigo. Using previously neglected Grant papers at Ballindalloch Castle in Scotland, as well as better-known materials, Nelson documents the roots of Grant's personality and ambitions, aiming to produce a work of interest for scholars of the American revolution and of military history, as well as early Florida and 18th century British history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49579430412561,"sku":"GOR011852833","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52142901526801,"sku":"NLS9780813011752","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0813011752.jpg?v=1762596401"},{"product_id":"anthony-wayne-book-paul-david-nelson-9780253307514","title":"Anthony Wayne","description":"Paul David Nelson has written an exciting biography of an exciting figure—the military hero of the American Revolution and the Indian Wars in the Northwest Territory—\"Mad\" Anthony Wayne. Some of his contemporaries called him rash and impetuous, a braggart and a dandy. \"More active and enterprising than judicious and cautious\" was George Washington's verdict. True, Wayne had a flair for the dramatic and consciously acted the role of swashbuckler, but he proved himself one of the best and most successful military leaders of the early American republic.   Despite his reputation for madness, Wayne, as Nelson points out, was a prudent and careful officer whose military record belies the myth. When he ran out of wars to fight, Wayne turned to the political arena. Nelson shows that the qualities which made Wayne a great military leader served him well in politics. He proved himself articulate and shrewd in statecraft in a critical time for the young republic, the years just after ratification of the Constitution.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49774239252753,"sku":"CIN0253307511G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0253307511.jpg?v=1763221225"},{"product_id":"fredrick-l-mcghee-book-paul-david-nelson-9780873514255","title":"Fredrick L.McGhee","description":"Distinguished by his hawk-like gaze and shock of silver hair, his forceful oratory and fierce advocacy, Fredrick L. McGhee was Minnesota's first African American attorney and an intelligent, tireless civil rights organizer. He moved onto the national stage when he helped found the Niagara Movement--the forerunner of today's NACP, which McGhee later helped spread across the Midwest. Years later, NACP chairman Roy Wilkins would remember of McGhee that it was through him that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People reached St. Paul and  our house at] 906 Galtier Street.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite McGhee's crucial role in early civil rights organizing, until now there has been no serious study of his life and work. Paul D. Nelson has meticulously reconstructed McGhee's life--from his birth into slavery during the Civil War, through his education and early career as a lawyer, to his eventual insight into the power the courts held as a force for political and social change. Nelson analyzes McGhee's legal strategies in important cases, such as the Hardy v. East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railway Co. case of 1891, the first attempt at desegregation in the United States, whose failed outcome led five years later to Plessy v. 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Nelson's biography illuminates one of the darkest periods in American history and recognizes the role of one man who helped lead his people into the light.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50365228220689,"sku":"CIN0873514254G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52970062315793,"sku":"CIN0873514254VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0873514254.jpg?v=1751108646"},{"product_id":"william-tryon-and-the-course-of-empire-book-paul-david-nelson-9780807819173","title":"William Tryon and the Course of Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Tryon's role in the affairs of British America during the last years of the empire, and his inability to stem the collapse of that empire, makes for a fascinating story. Royal governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771 and then of New York from 1771 to 1780, Tryon became a general in the British army attempting to quell the American rebellion. This biography covers his life in service to the Crown through the end of the American Revolution.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paul Nelson argues that Tryon was a talented colonial administrator and a successful, even popular, governor largely because he understood American thinking on such basic constitutional issues as taxation, finance, and trade policy. British home authorities failed to follow Tryon's sage counsel regarding the governance of the colonies, advice that might have forestalled the Revolution. In particular, Tryon, like Edmund Burke and others in Parliament, could not convince British ministers that Americans would never accept internal taxes imposed upon them by London.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Once the war broke out and Tryon's role changed from governing to leading Loyalist American troops, he was an advocate of harsh, retributive warfare against his former charges. Nelson follows Tryon's military career, especially his debates with colleagues such as Sir Henry Clinton on the wisdom of hard-line versus conciliatory approach to the fighting. And after the war, Nelson shows, Tryon's connections with those unfortunate Americans who came out on the losing side of the great imperial struggle retained an important place in his life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e An exciting drama in its own right, Tryon's story also serves to illuminate a number of issues important to historians of the Revolutionary War. Played out on two continents and in two important American colonies, amid the stirring events that resulted in the formation of the United States of America, Tryon's life is significant for understanding many aspects of politics and society in the Anglo-American world of the eighteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Originally published in 1990.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. 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