Resistance, Politics, and the American Struggle for Independence, 1765-1775 /

Resistance, Politics, and the American Struggle for Independence, 1765-1775 / / ed. by Walter H. Conser, Ronald M. McCarthy, David J. Toscano.

Analyzing in detail the decade of resistance to British colonial rule leading to American independence demonstrates that deliberate and sophisticated use of nonviolent action - protests, economic boycotts, political noncooperation, and other methods - was crucial to the outcome of the independence m...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Ammerman, David L.,
Bonwick, C. C.,
Christie, Ian R.,
Conser, Walter H.,
Langford, Paul,
McCarthy, Ronald M.,
Plumb, J. H.,
Thomas, Leslie J.,
Toscano, David J.,
HerausgeberIn:
Conser, Walter H.,
McCarthy, Ronald M.,
Toscano, David J.,
Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]
©1987
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (750 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part 1 A Decade of Struggle, 1765-1775
  • 1 The American Independence Movement, 1765-1775: A Decade of Nonviolent Struggles
  • 2 The Stamp Act Resistance
  • 3 The First Rockingham Ministry and the Repeal of the Stamp Act: The Role of the Commercial Lobby and Economic Pressures
  • Introduction to Chapter 4 Circular Letters, Customs Officers, and the Issue of Violence: The Background to the Townshend Acts Resistance
  • 4 The Nonconsumption and Nonimportation Movement Against the Townshend Acts, 1767-1770
  • 5 British Response to American Reactions to the Townshend Acts 1768-1770
  • Introduction to Chapter 6 Sullen Silence or Prelude to Resistance: Background to the Continental Association, 1771 to May 1774
  • 6 The Continental Association: Economic Resistance and Government by Committee
  • 7 The British Business Community and the Later Nonimportation Movements 1768-1776
  • 8 The British Ministers, Massachusetts, and the Continental Congress, 1774-1775
  • Part 2 The Impact of the Struggle
  • 9 The Impact of Commercial Resistance
  • 10 Religion and the Development of Political Resistance in the Colonies
  • 11 English Radicals and American Resistance to British Authority
  • 12 A Shift in Strategy: The Organization of Military Struggle
  • 13 British Attitudes to the American Revolution
  • 14 Resistance Politics and the Growth of Parallel Government in America, 1765-1775
  • Appendixes
  • A Examination of Benjamin Franklin on the Stamp Act, 12-13 February 1766
  • B Letter Three of John Dickinson's Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
  • C Excerpt from the Boston Newsletter, 6 July 1769
  • D Virginia Association, August 1774
  • E Suffolk Resolves, 14 September 1774
  • F Continental Association, October 1774
  • G Letters and Diary Extracts of Josiah Quincy, Jr., 1774-1775
  • The Contributors
  • Index

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