TY - BOOK ID - 138953904 TI - Bombast and broadsides PY - 1987 SN - 081738278X 9780817382780 0817311920 9780817311926 0817303375 9780817303372 9780817311926 PB - Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press DB - UniCat KW - Legislators KW - Governors KW - Johnstone, George, KW - Great Britain. KW - Great Britain KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138953904 AB - George Johnstone has never received the scholarly attention he fully merits. Historians have assessed him, usually briefly, as governor of West Florida, or as naval commander, or as a member of parliament. Nevertheless, none has considered his important role in East India Company politics, nor, until Bombast and Broadsides, has one synthesized the various roles in which Johnstone was entrusted with high responsibilities. Through research in Cardiff, Edinburgh, Kew, London, Philadelphia, and Washington in largely unpublished manuscripts, together with the use of secondary sources, ER -