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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... Claim of the Colonies , 1765 96 33. " William Pym " : " The British parliament can at any time set aside all the charters , " August 20 , 1765 97 34. Anti - Sejanus : " The whole Stamp Act appears to be unexceptionable , ' November 28 ...
... Claim of the Colonies , 1765 96 33. " William Pym " : " The British parliament can at any time set aside all the charters , " August 20 , 1765 97 34. Anti - Sejanus : " The whole Stamp Act appears to be unexceptionable , ' November 28 ...
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... claim to any ship or goods seized in pursuance of this or any other act of parliament , and prosecuted in any of the British colonies or plantations in America , until sufficient security be first given , by persons of known ability ...
... claim to any ship or goods seized in pursuance of this or any other act of parliament , and prosecuted in any of the British colonies or plantations in America , until sufficient security be first given , by persons of known ability ...
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... Claim of our Constituents , to an Exemption from the Burthen of all Taxes not granted by them- selves , and their Foresight of the tragical Consequences of an Adoption of the con- trary Principle , to the Crown , the Mother Country ...
... Claim of our Constituents , to an Exemption from the Burthen of all Taxes not granted by them- selves , and their Foresight of the tragical Consequences of an Adoption of the con- trary Principle , to the Crown , the Mother Country ...
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... claim a Freedom from Assessments unbounded and unassented to , without which they would sustain the Loss of every ... claiming that Exemption as a Privilege . They found it on a Basis more honourable , solid and stable ; they challenge ...
... claim a Freedom from Assessments unbounded and unassented to , without which they would sustain the Loss of every ... claiming that Exemption as a Privilege . They found it on a Basis more honourable , solid and stable ; they challenge ...
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... Claim . Permit us , also , in Defence of our Attachment to the Mother Country , to add , what your Merchants ( to whom we boldly make the Appeal ) know to be an undoubted Truth ; that this Continent contains some of the most useful of ...
... Claim . Permit us , also , in Defence of our Attachment to the Mother Country , to add , what your Merchants ( to whom we boldly make the Appeal ) know to be an undoubted Truth ; that this Continent contains some of the most useful of ...
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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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