TY - BOOK AU - Larson,Carlton F.W. TI - The trials of allegiance: treason, juries, and the American revolution T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780190932770 (ebook) : AV - KF221.P6 L37 2019 U1 - 345.730231 23 PY - 2019/// CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Trials (Treason) KW - Pennsylvania KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Treason KW - United States KW - Politics and government KW - 1775-1783 KW - Revolution, 1775-1783 KW - Law and legislation KW - Criminal provisions N1 - Also issued in print: 2019; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 'The Trials of Allegiance' examines the law of treason during the American Revolution - a convulsive, violent civil war in which nearly everyone could be considered a traitor, either to Great Britain or to America. Drawing from extensive archival research in Pennsylvania - one of the main centres of the revolution - Carlton Larson provides the most comprehensive analysis yet of the treason prosecutions brought by Americans against British adherents - through committees of safety, military tribunals, and ordinary criminal trials UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190932749.001.0001 ER -