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Interweaving engaging narrative episodes and analysis, James Corbett David may indeed be part of a new scholarship which restores the drama of the Revolutionary War by making it much less one-sided.</p>--Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, author of <i>The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire</i>

When John Murray, the Earl of Dunmore, was named royal governor of Virginia in 1771, America's revolutionary spirit was evolving from flicker to flame.... David's book provides a rich look at the man and his role in the American Revolution. --Richmond Times-Dispatch In this telling, Dunmore is no drunken fool who lost an empire nor a great emancipator. He is a man of empire, creating and caught by webs of patronage, ambition, and family. David's deep familiarity with the historiographies of the British Empire, the American Revolution, Native America, slavery, and the family makes the book cutting-edge scholarship. His vivid writing and well-crafted plotting make it a page-turner. --William & Mary Quarterly Rather than provide a traditional, detailed biography, David has attempted to provide a broader perspective on the twilight of British colonial America through the career of one of its more reviled agents. In that, he has spectacularly succeeded. --Benjamin G. Scharff, Mercyhurst University West Virginia History Dunmore's New World is the best new book-length work in early American history that I have seen in more than a decade. The author's impressive new research offers a view of Revolutionary North America as revealed through the experiences of a remarkably able, knowledgeable, skillful, and deeply flawed imperial operative. --Robert M. Calhoon, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, author of Dominion and Liberty: Ideology and the Anglo-American World, 1660-1801 Interweaving engaging narrative episodes and analysis, James Corbett David may indeed be part of a new scholarship which restores the drama of the Revolutionary War by making it much less one-sided. --Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, author of The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire

Interweaving engaging narrative episodes and analysis, James Corbett David may indeed be part of a new scholarship which restores the drama of the Revolutionary War by making it much less one-sided.--Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, author of The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire

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James Corbett David received a Ph.D. in history from the College of William and Mary, USA.

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