1st Edition

Imaginary Friendship in the American Revolution John Adams and Jonathan Sewall

By Colin Nicolson, Owen Dudley Edwards Copyright 2019
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Imaginary Friendship is the first in-depth study of the onset of the American Revolution through the prism of friendship, focusing on future US president John Adams and leading Loyalist Jonathan Sewall. The book is part biography, revealing how they shaped each other’s progress, and part political history, exploring their intriguing dangerous quest to clean up colonial politics. Literary... Read more

Prologue: History  1. Friendship  2. John and Jonathan  3. Politics  4. The King’s Law  5. Imagining Revolution  6. Massachusettensis and Novanglus  7. Debate  8. The British Question  9. Revolution.  Epilogue: War and Reunion

Biography

Colin Nicolson is Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling.



Owen Dudley Edwards is an Irish historian and former Reader in Commonwealth and American History at the University of Edinburgh.