Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766This 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. |
Contents
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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 S. Morgan No preview available - 1959 |
Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act ..., Volume 10 Edmund Sears Morgan No preview available - 1959 |
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