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Title Community without consent : new perspectives on the Stamp Act / Zachary McLeod Hutchins, editor
Published Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 242 pages)
Series Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies
Re-mapping the transnational.
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)
SUBJECT Stamp Act (Great Britain : 1765) fast
Subject Taxation -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Protest movements -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Riots -- United States -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
War -- Causes
International relations
Protest movements
Riots
Taxation -- Political aspects
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140131
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140149
Great Britain -- Relations -- United States
United States -- Relations -- Great Britain
United States -- History -- COLONIAL PERIOD, CA. 1600-1775
United States -- History -- REVOLUTION, 1775-1783 -- CAUSES
Subject Great Britain
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hutchins, Zachary McLeod, editor
LC no. 2015037418
ISBN 9781611689525
161168952X
1611688817
9781611688818
9781611688825
1611688825