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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... government , a prob- lem that has not ceased to occupy them ever since . Students encountering the problem in the form that Americans faced in 1765 will not fail to recognize the importance of the issues . Documents for studying the ...
... government , a prob- lem that has not ceased to occupy them ever since . Students encountering the problem in the form that Americans faced in 1765 will not fail to recognize the importance of the issues . Documents for studying the ...
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... Colony , have enjoyed the Right of Taxing the Subject for the Support of the Government . Under this Political Frame , the Colony was settled by Protestant Emigrants from several Parts of Europe 8 PROLOGUE TO REVOLUTION.
... Colony , have enjoyed the Right of Taxing the Subject for the Support of the Government . Under this Political Frame , the Colony was settled by Protestant Emigrants from several Parts of Europe 8 PROLOGUE TO REVOLUTION.
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... Government , and advance the general Interest of the whole British Empire . It has been their particular Misfortune , to be always most exposed to the Incur- sions of the Canadians , and the more barbarous Irruptions of the Savages of ...
... Government , and advance the general Interest of the whole British Empire . It has been their particular Misfortune , to be always most exposed to the Incur- sions of the Canadians , and the more barbarous Irruptions of the Savages of ...
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... Government , of which your Hon . House is so essential a Part ; and earnestly pray the Almighty Governor of all , long to support the due Distribution of the Power of the Nation in the three great Legisla- tive Branches . But the ...
... Government , of which your Hon . House is so essential a Part ; and earnestly pray the Almighty Governor of all , long to support the due Distribution of the Power of the Nation in the three great Legisla- tive Branches . But the ...
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... Government upon this Con- tinent , or for the Maintenance of an Army , to awe and subdue the Savages should be thought necessary , why shall it be pre- sumed , without a Trial , that we more than others , will refuse to hearken to a ...
... Government upon this Con- tinent , or for the Maintenance of an Army , to awe and subdue the Savages should be thought necessary , why shall it be pre- sumed , without a Trial , that we more than others , will refuse to hearken to a ...
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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 |
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