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Public papers of George Clinton, first Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801-1804 (Volume III)

Public papers of George Clinton, first Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801-1804 (Volume III)

Clinton, George

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ISBN10: 9353708583
ISBN13: 9789353708580
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 802
Weight: 2.21
Height: 1.77 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The papers of a governor rarely feel urgent. These do. History speaks here, in ink. Public Papers of George Clinton, first Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801-1804 (Volume III) gathers the working record of New York's first governor across the years of revolution and the early republic, presenting official messages, orders, reports and letters as a primary source document collection shaped by crisis and compromise. Read it for the pressure points of revolutionary war governance: militia and supply, loyalism and dissent, frontier alarms, finance, and the daily mechanics of state power. As a historical correspondence anthology and a gubernatorial papers volume, it captures state executive correspondence at the moment New York revolutionary politics helped steer the wider cause. Clinton's tenure ties the statehouse to Continental strategy and later federal rule, showing how authority was built on the ground. Read one dispatch, or a year's arc. For scholars and keen general readers alike, it serves as an American history research reference and an American Revolution sourcebook; for genealogists, New York archives come alive in names, places, petitions and appointments that map eighteenth century New York into early republic America. Its value also lies in voice: the practical, persistent cadence of government when the nation was being negotiated. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure, and a worthy addition to any founding fathers papers collection.

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