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Date Permissions Signed

10-23-2014

Date of Award

1993

Document Type

Masters Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

First Advisor

Gallay, Alan, 1957-

Second Advisor

Mancke, Elizabeth, 1954-

Third Advisor

Radke, August Carl, 1922-

Fourth Advisor

Weir, Sara

Abstract

Between 1775 and 1782 Georgia was wracked by social and political revolutions, as well as a local civil war. Britain and the United States wanted Georgia, and during the Revolutionary War they established competing civil governments and military units within her borders. Irregular troops, autonomous militia units and unaligned marauders roamed the countryside, while the military requisitioned property and claimed booty. As the threat of famine and anarchy grew, the rival governments struggled to keep people from fleeing Georgia, and allowed a flexible allegiance in order to maintain the population. Many who survived these years in Georgia did so by setting aside any political convictions they might have held and supporting the local government in power. They did this in order to protect and retain their property, if not add to it. The end result was that political authority shifted from a planter elite to a broadly-based electorate.

Type

Text

DOI

https://doi.org/10.25710/0k4n-ap06

Publisher

Western Washington University

OCLC Number

78872947

Comments

This thesis was nominated by WWU for the Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS) Distinguished Thesis Award for 1995.

This thesis formed the basis for the author’s book, Land and Allegiance in Revolutionary Georgia, published by the University of Georgia Press in 2001.

Subject – LCSH

Georgia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Georgia--Politics and government--1775-1865

Geographic Coverage

Georgia

Format

application/pdf

Genre/Form

masters theses

Language

English

Rights

Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this thesis for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author's written permission.

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