Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766UNC Press Books, 2012 M12 1 - 174 páginas 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. |
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... Country , themselves and their Posterity . Had the Freedom from all Taxes not granted by ourselves been enjoyed as a Privilege , we are confident the Wisdom and Justice of the British Parliament , would rather establish than destroy it ...
... Country , themselves and their Posterity . Had the Freedom from all Taxes not granted by ourselves been enjoyed as a Privilege , we are confident the Wisdom and Justice of the British Parliament , would rather establish than destroy it ...
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... Country , nobly disdain the thought of claiming that Exemption as a Privilege . They found it on a Basis more honourable , solid and stable ; they challenge it , and glory in it as their Right . That Right their Ancestors en- joyed in ...
... Country , nobly disdain the thought of claiming that Exemption as a Privilege . They found it on a Basis more honourable , solid and stable ; they challenge it , and glory in it as their Right . That Right their Ancestors en- joyed in ...
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... Country , and the Augmentation or Reduction of the Force kept up , be regulated by the Power and Temper of our barbarian Enemy , the Necessity for continuing the present Model must appear to be most strongly inforced.— At the remote ...
... Country , and the Augmentation or Reduction of the Force kept up , be regulated by the Power and Temper of our barbarian Enemy , the Necessity for continuing the present Model must appear to be most strongly inforced.— At the remote ...
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... Country may be as effectually drawn off , by the Exaction of Duties , as by any other Tax upon their Estates . And therefore , the General Assembly of New - York , in Fidelity to their Con- stituents , cannot but express the most ...
... Country may be as effectually drawn off , by the Exaction of Duties , as by any other Tax upon their Estates . And therefore , the General Assembly of New - York , in Fidelity to their Con- stituents , cannot but express the most ...
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Contenido
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Chapter II THE GENESIS OF THE STAMP ACT | 24 |
Chapter III THE ACTION OF THE COLONIAL ASSEMBLIES | 44 |
Chapter IV THE AMERICAN PRESS | 70 |
Chapter V THE BRITISH PRESS | 95 |
Chapter VI THE PATTERN OF REBELLION | 104 |
Chapter VII REPEAL | 127 |
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Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766 Edmund Sears Morgan Vista previa limitada - 1959 |
Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766 Edmund S. Morgan Sin vista previa disponible - 1959 |
Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act ..., Volumen10 Edmund Sears Morgan Sin vista previa disponible - 1959 |
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