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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... British colonies or plantations in America ; shall be deemed , and are here- by declared to be sterling money of Great Britain , and shall be collected , recovered , and paid , to the amount of the value which such nominal sums bear in ...
... British colonies or plantations in America ; shall be deemed , and are here- by declared to be sterling money of Great Britain , and shall be collected , recovered , and paid , to the amount of the value which such nominal sums bear in ...
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... British Parliament , would rather establish than destroy it , un- less by our abuse of it , the Forfeiture was justly incurred ; but his Majesty's Colony of New - York , can not only defy the whole World to impeach their Fidelity , but ...
... British Parliament , would rather establish than destroy it , un- less by our abuse of it , the Forfeiture was justly incurred ; but his Majesty's Colony of New - York , can not only defy the whole World to impeach their Fidelity , but ...
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... British Commons from the sequestered Shades of the interior Parts of this Desart , false Intelligence of the State of the Indians may be given ; whereas the Vicinity of the Colonies will enable them , not only , to detect all false ...
... British Commons from the sequestered Shades of the interior Parts of this Desart , false Intelligence of the State of the Indians may be given ; whereas the Vicinity of the Colonies will enable them , not only , to detect all false ...
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... British Merchants are , or will soon be convinced to their Sorrow , that our Splendor was not sup- ported by solid Riches . The honourable House will permit us to observe next , that the Act of the last Session of Parliament ...
... British Merchants are , or will soon be convinced to their Sorrow , that our Splendor was not sup- ported by solid Riches . The honourable House will permit us to observe next , that the Act of the last Session of Parliament ...
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... your Memorialists hope on Ap- plication to your Lordships , the fixed and hereditary Guardians of British Liberty , will not be thought improper at this Time , C. THE REMONSTRANCE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 14 PROLOGUE TO REVOLUTION.
... your Memorialists hope on Ap- plication to your Lordships , the fixed and hereditary Guardians of British Liberty , will not be thought improper at this Time , C. THE REMONSTRANCE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 14 PROLOGUE TO REVOLUTION.
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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