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Community without consent : new perspectives on the Stamp Act

Summary: "A collection of essays concerning the Stamp Act of 1765 and its impact on Colonial America"--Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9781611688818
  • ISBN: 9781611689525
  • ISBN: 9781611688825
  • ISBN: 9781611688818
  • ISBN: 161168952X
  • ISBN: 1611688825
  • ISBN: 1611688817
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 242 pages)
    remote
    Computer data.
  • Publisher: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2016]

Content descriptions

General Note:
CatMonthString:july.21
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction: The Stamp Act, from beginning to end / Zachary McLeod Hutchins -- Part I. Ritual responses to the Stamp Act -- The sermon that didn't start the revolution : Jonathan Mayhew's role in the Stamp Act riots / J. Patrick Mullins -- Buried liberties and hanging effigies : imperial persuasion, intimidation, and performance during the Stamp Act crisis / Molly Perry -- Part II. The poetics of taxation -- "Daring to try the King's patience?" : (futile?) resistance versus insatiability in Fabula Neoterica / Gilbert L. Gigliotti -- Letters from a woman in Pennsylvania, or, Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson dreams of John Dickinson / Caroline Wigginton -- Part III. The levy and the slave -- The slave narrative and the Stamp Act, or, Letters from two American farmers in Pennsylvania / Zachary McLeod Hutchins -- "Providence never designed us for Negroes" : slavery and British subjecthood in the Stamp Act crisis, 1764-1766 / Alexander R. Jablonski -- Part IV. Indians across the Atlantic -- "Homespun," "Indian corn," and the "indigestible ... Stamp Act" : an empire of stereotype in Franklin's letters to the London press / Todd Nathan Thompson -- Redness and the contest of Anglo-American empires / Clay Zuba -- Afterword: Corporatism and the Stamp Act crisis.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:
Made available online by EBSCO.
Source of Description Note:
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 29, 2016).
Subject: Great Britain.
Stamp Act (Great Britain : 1765) -- Stamp Act (Great Britain : 1765)
Protest movements -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Riots -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Taxation -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General
International relations
Protest movements
Riots
Taxation -- Political aspects
War -- Causes
Great Britain -- Relations -- United States
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes
United States -- Relations -- Great Britain
Great Britain
United States
Multi-User.
Genre: Electronic books.
History.

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