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035			_a(DE-B1597)9781487583682
035			_a(DE-B1597)527868
035			_a(OCoLC)1129211856
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
072		7	_aBIO020000 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a974.7020924 _qOCoLC
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aUpton, L.F.S. _eautore
245	1	4	_aThe Loyal Whig : _bWilliam Smith of New York & Quebec / _cL.F.S. Upton.
264		1	_aToronto : _bUniversity of Toronto Press, _c[1969]
264		4	_c©1969
300			_a1 online resource (264 p.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aHeritage
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520			_aWilliam Smith is chiefly remembered in Canada as a distant advocate of a confederation that was not achieved until almost three-quarters of a century after his death. Born in New York, he was a member of the generation that led the American Revolution, and bore the hallmarks of a successful revolutionary. Able and ambitious, yet on the outside of his colony's establishment, he gained early prominence as a champion of religious dissent and plunged into the politics of colonial New York as a self-proclaimed Whig. However, when the revolution came, he sat out the crisis and in the end went over to the British. The reward for his loyalty to the Crown was his appointment as chief justice of Quebec. Many of his contemporaries saw his career as the maneuverings of a selfish man unwilling to risk much in any cause that would endanger his own security. But Professor Upton in this study reveals a stratum of ideas beneath the surface events of his life that gives consistency to the whole. His account of Smith's career follows him through the convoluted process of New York colonial politics, through the Revolution and his years of exile in London to his final years as chief justice of Quebec. This is the biography of an eloquent visionary who agitated for confederation, dominion status, and autonomy under the Crown years in advance of other men; it also reflects the spirit of those times, the turbulence of politics and war and the exciting growth of two new countries.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Lawyers & Judges. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487583682
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487583682/original
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