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Prologue to revolution : sources and documents on the Stamp act crisis, 1764-1766.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill,
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
[1959]
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| Colección: | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chapter I. THE SUGAR ACT; 1. The Sugar Act, April 5, 1764; 2. The New York Petition to the House of Commons, October 18, 1764; 3. The Virginia Petitions to the King and Parliament, December 18, 1764; A. The Petition to the King; B. The Memorial to the House of Lords; C. The Remonstrance to the House of Commons; 4. Thomas Whately on ""Regulations lately Made, "" 1765; Chapter II. THE GENESIS OF THE STAMP ACT; 5. The Colonial Agents Confer with Grenville, May 17, 1764; A. Jasper Mauduit to the Massachusetts Assembly, May 26, 1764.
- B. Charles Garth to the Committee of Correspondence of the South Carolina Assembly, June 5, 17646. Massachusetts Attempts to Forestall the Stamp Act, August 18, 1764; 7. The Debate in Parliament; A. Jared Ingersoll to Thomas Fitch, February 11, 1765; B. General Conway's Speech, February 15, 1765; 8. The Stamp Act, March 22, 1765; Chapter III. THE ACTION OF THE COLONIAL ASSEMBLIES; The Virginia Resolves; 9. The French Traveller's Account, May 30-31, 1765; 10. Governor Fauquier's Account, June 5, 1765; 11. The Resolutions as Printed in The Journal of the House of Burgesses, 1765.
- 12. The Resolutions as Recalled by Patrick Henry13. The Resolutions as Printed by the Newport Mercury, June 24, 1765; 14. The Resolutions as Printed by the Maryland Gazette, July 4, 1765; The Resolves of the Other Colonies; 15. The Rhode Island Resolves, September, 1765; 16. The Pennsylvania Resolves, September 21, 1765; 17. The Maryland Resolves, September 28, 1765; 18. The Connecticut Resolves, October 25, 1765; 19. The Massachusetts Resolves, October 29, 1765; 20. The South Carolina Resolves, November 29, 1765; 21. The New Jersey Resolves, November 30, 1765.
- 22. The New York Resolves, December 18, 1765The Stamp Act Congress, October 7-24, 1765; 23. The Declarations of the Stamp Act Congress; 24. The Petition to the King; 25. The Memorial to the House of Lords; 26. The Petition to the House of Commons; Chapter IV. THE AMERICAN PRESS; 27. A Letter from a Plain Yeoman, May 11, 1765; 28. Daniel Dulany on the Authority of Parliament, October, 1765; 29. The Objection to American Representation in Parliament, March 13, 1766; 30. ""Cato"" Denounces a ""vile Miscreant, "" August 26, 1765; 31. An Attack on ""designing parricides, "" October 21, 1765.
- Chapter V. THE BRITISH PRESS32. William Knox on the Claim of the Colonies, 1765; 33. ""William Pym"": ""The British parliament can at any time set aside all the charters, "" August 20, 1765; 34. Anti-Sejanus: ""The whole Stamp Act appears to be unexceptionable, "" November 28-30, 1765; 35. ""Pacificus"" Lectures the ""Libertines"" of Virginia and the ""Pumkins"" of New England, 1766; 36. ""John Ploughshare"": ""I am for Old England, "" February 20, 1766; Chapter VI. THE PATTERN OF REBELLION; Boycotts and Riots; 37. The New York Agreement, October 31, 1765; 38. The Boston Riot of August 14, 1765.