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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... Interest of the Crown and the Nation , and reduce the Colony to absolute Ruin ; it became our indispensible Duty , to trouble you with a seasonable Representation of the Claim of our Constituents , to an Exemption from the Burthen of ...
... Interest of the Crown and the Nation , and reduce the Colony to absolute Ruin ; it became our indispensible Duty , to trouble you with a seasonable Representation of the Claim of our Constituents , to an Exemption from the Burthen of ...
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... Interests we cannot be guilty . From what other Quarter can we hope for Protection ? We reject the Thought with the utmost ... Interest of Great- Britain . But a Freedom to drive all Kinds of Traffick in a Subordination to , and not ...
... Interests we cannot be guilty . From what other Quarter can we hope for Protection ? We reject the Thought with the utmost ... Interest of Great- Britain . But a Freedom to drive all Kinds of Traffick in a Subordination to , and not ...
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... Interest of Great - Britain , to adopt the Maxim , that her own Happi- ness is most intimately connected with the Freedom , Ease and Prosperity of her Colonies : The more extensive our Traf- fick , the Greater her Gains ; we carry all ...
... Interest of Great - Britain , to adopt the Maxim , that her own Happi- ness is most intimately connected with the Freedom , Ease and Prosperity of her Colonies : The more extensive our Traf- fick , the Greater her Gains ; we carry all ...
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... Interest upon all the Sums raised in that Way , would have exceeded our Ability now to discharge . Happy for us , therefore , that we fell upon the Project of giving a Credit to Paper , which was always supported by seasonable Taxes on ...
... Interest upon all the Sums raised in that Way , would have exceeded our Ability now to discharge . Happy for us , therefore , that we fell upon the Project of giving a Credit to Paper , which was always supported by seasonable Taxes on ...
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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 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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