Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 242 pages) |
Series |
Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies |
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Re-mapping the transnational.
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Contents |
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 |
Summary |
"A collection of essays concerning the Stamp Act of 1765 and its impact on Colonial America"--Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 29, 2016) |
Subject |
Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765)
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SUBJECT |
Stamp Act (Great Britain : 1765) fast |
Subject |
Taxation -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century
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Protest movements -- United States -- History -- 18th century
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Riots -- United States -- History -- 18th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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War -- Causes
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International relations
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Protest movements
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Riots
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Taxation -- Political aspects
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SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140131
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140149
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Great Britain -- Relations -- United States
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United States -- Relations -- Great Britain
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United States -- History -- COLONIAL PERIOD, CA. 1600-1775
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United States -- History -- REVOLUTION, 1775-1783 -- CAUSES
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Subject |
Great Britain
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United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Hutchins, Zachary McLeod, editor
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LC no. |
2015037418 |
ISBN |
9781611689525 |
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161168952X |
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1611688817 |
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9781611688818 |
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9781611688825 |
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1611688825 |
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