Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766

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UNC 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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Chapter I THE SUGAR ACT
3
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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Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. His many books include Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America and The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution.

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