The Stamp Act Crisis

Author : Edmund S. Morgan,Helen M. Morgan
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807899793

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The Stamp Act Crisis by Edmund S. Morgan,Helen M. Morgan Pdf

'Impressive! . . . The authors have given us a searching account of the crisis and provided some memorable portraits of officials in America impaled on the dilemma of having to enforce a measure which they themselves opposed.'--New York Times 'A brilliant contribution to the colonial field. Combining great industry, astute scholarship, and a vivid style, the authors have sought 'to recreate two years of American history.' They have succeeded admirably.'--William and Mary Quarterly 'Required reading for anyone interested in those eventful years preceding the American Revolution.'--Political Science Quarterly The Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the American colonies, provoked an immediate and violent response. The Stamp Act Crisis, originally published by UNC Press in 1953, identifies the issues that caused the confrontation and explores the ways in which the conflict was a prelude to the American Revolution.

Author : Jonathan Mercantini
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770486157

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The Stamp Act of 1765: A History in Documents by Jonathan Mercantini Pdf

When Parliament sought to raise funds through the passing of the Stamp Act in 1765, they did not anticipate the protests and staunch opposition to the new law that would ensue in the colonies. Though the crisis was eventually resolved, the larger questions raised by Parliament’s action and colonial resistance remained unanswered. What started as a debate over taxation would end in a struggle for independence. The Stamp Act Crisis, 1765–1766, marks the transition in United States history from the Colonial Era to the Era of the American Revolution. The full narrative of the Stamp Act includes political, social, economic, and cultural histories on both sides of the Atlantic. This volume provides the reader with the opportunity to engage with the pamphlets, letters, speeches, legal documents, and other texts and images that people in the colonies and in London were themselves reading, debating, and reacting to at the time. The introduction incorporates recent scholarship and provides a fresh look at this key moment in American history, and the informative headnotes and rich annotations help orient the reader within the historical sources.

Author : Zachary McLeod Hutchins
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611689525

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Community without Consent by Zachary McLeod Hutchins Pdf

The first book-length study of the Stamp Act in decades, this timely collection draws together essays from a broad range of disciplines to provide a thoroughly original investigation of the influence of 1760s British tax legislation on colonial culture, and vice versa. While earlier scholarship has largely focused on the political origins and legacy of the Stamp Act, this volume illuminates the social and cultural impact of a legislative crisis that would end in revolution. Importantly, these essays question the traditional nationalist narrative of Stamp Act scholarship, offering a variety of counter identities and perspectives. Community without Consent recovers the stories of individuals often ignored or overlooked in existing scholarship, including women, Native Americans, and enslaved African Americans, by drawing on sources unavailable to or unexamined by earlier researchers. This urgent and original collection will appeal to the broadest of interdisciplinary audiences.

Author : Sophie White
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469654058

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Voices of the Enslaved by Sophie White Pdf

In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they answered with stories about themselves, stories that rebutted the premise on which slavery was founded. Focusing on four especially dramatic court cases, Voices of the Enslaved draws us into Louisiana's courtrooms, prisons, courtyards, plantations, bayous, and convents to understand how the enslaved viewed and experienced their worlds. As they testified, these individuals charted their movement between West African, indigenous, and colonial cultures; they pronounced their moral and religious values; and they registered their responses to labor, to violence, and, above all, to the intimate romantic and familial bonds they sought to create and protect. Their words--punctuated by the cadences of Creole and rich with metaphor--produced riveting autobiographical narratives as they veered from the questions posed by interrogators. Carefully assessing what we can discover, what we might guess, and what has been lost forever, Sophie White offers both a richly textured account of slavery in French Louisiana and a powerful meditation on the limits and possibilities of the archive.

Author : Edmund Sears Morgan,Helen M. Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Stamp Act, 1765
ISBN : OCLC:248178320

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The Stamp Act Crisis by Edmund Sears Morgan,Helen M. Morgan Pdf

Author : Peter David Garner Thomas
Publisher : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106000593183

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British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis by Peter David Garner Thomas Pdf

Author : Jack P. Greene,J. R. Pole
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470756447

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A Companion to the American Revolution by Jack P. Greene,J. R. Pole Pdf

A Companion to the American Revolution is a single guide to the themes, events, and concepts of this major turning point in early American history. Containing coverage before, during, and after the war, as well as the effect of the revolution on a global scale, this major reference to the period is ideal for any student, scholar, or general reader seeking a complete reference to the field. Contains 90 articles in all, including guides to further reading and a detailed chronological table. Explains all aspects of the revolution before, during, and after the war. Discusses the status and experiences of women, Native Americans, and African Americans, and aspects of social and daily life during this period. Describes the effects of the revolution abroad. Provides complete coverage of military history, including the home front. Concludes with a section on concepts to put the morality of early America in today’s context.

Author : E. S. Morgan,H. M. Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:500679430

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The Stamp Act Crisis by E. S. Morgan,H. M. Morgan Pdf

Author : Lindley S. Butler
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469667577

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A History of North Carolina in the Proprietary Era, 1629-1729 by Lindley S. Butler Pdf

In this book, Lindley S. Butler traverses oft-noted but little understood events in the political and social establishment of the Carolina colony. In the wake of the English Civil Wars in the mid-seventeenth century, King Charles II granted charters to eight Lords Proprietors to establish civil structures, levy duties and taxes, and develop a vast tract of land along the southeastern Atlantic coast. Butler argues that unlike the New England theocracies and Chesapeake plantocracy, the isolated colonial settlements of the Albemarle—the cradle of today's North Carolina—saw their power originate neither in the authority of the church nor in wealth extracted through slave labor, but rather in institutions that emphasized political, legal, and religious freedom for white male landholders. Despite this distinct pattern of economic, legal, and religious development, however, the colony could not avoid conflict among the diverse assemblage of Indigenous, European, and African people living there, all of whom contributed to the future of the state and nation that took shape in subsequent years. Butler provides the first comprehensive history of the proprietary era in North Carolina since the nineteenth century, offering a substantial and accessible reappraisal of this key historical period.

Author : Edmund S. Morgan
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838914

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Prologue to Revolution by Edmund S. Morgan Pdf

This comprehensive documentary source book on the Stamp Act provides a case-study approach to American colonial history and serves as a problems source book on the key event in Anglo-American relations in the 1760s. Morgan has assembled sixty-five crucial documents on all phases of the crisis; on certain acute issues of the controversy nearly all of the relevant materials now extant are included.

Author : John Dickinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1774
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:69015000047916

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Letters from a Farmer, in Pennsylvania by John Dickinson Pdf

Author : Joseph S. Tiedemann
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : 0801474957

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Reluctant Revolutionaries by Joseph S. Tiedemann Pdf

The question of why New Yorkers were such reluctant revolutionaries has long bedeviled historians. In an innovative study of New York City between 1763 and 1776, Joseph S. Tiedemann explains how conscientiously residents labored to build a consensus under difficult circumstances. New Yorkers acted the way they did not because they were mostly loyalist or because a few patrician conservatives were able to stem the tide of revolution but because the population of their city was so heterogeneous that consensus was not easily achieved.Differences within the city's pluralistic population slowed the process of hammering out a course of action acceptable to the large majority. The consensus that finally emerged had to be cautious rather than militant in order to unite as many people as possible behind the revolutionary banner. Ultimately, the time it took was far less significant, Tiedemann notes, than the fact that New York proceeded to declare independence, and went on to become a pivotal state in the new nation. In framing his argument, Tiedemann explains the limitations of interpretations offered by both progressive, New Left, and consensus historians. Citing the work of scholars as diverse as Walter Laqueur, Theda Skocpol, and Louis Kreisberg, Tiedemann pays close attention to the dynamics of British colonial rule and its impact on New York.

Author : Edmund Sears Morgan,Helen M. Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:221518981

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The Stamp Act Crisis by Edmund Sears Morgan,Helen M. Morgan Pdf

Author : Peter David Garner Thomas
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012121185

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The Townshend Duties Crisis by Peter David Garner Thomas Pdf

Studying the British reaction to colonial resistance to Charles Townshend's taxes and other British policies, Peter Thomas proves that attitudes on both sides of the Atlantic hardened long before the Boston Tea Party.

Author : Mercy Otis Warren
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016113382

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History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution by Mercy Otis Warren Pdf

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