Community without consent new perspectives on the Stamp Act / [electronic resource] : edited by Zachary McLeod Hutchins. - Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, 2016. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"A collection of essays concerning the Stamp Act of 1765 and its impact on Colonial America"--Provided by publisher.

9781611689525 161168952X




Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765)


Riots--History--United States--18th century.
Protest movements--History--United States--18th century.
Taxation--Political aspects--History--United States--18th century.


United States--Relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Relations--United States.
United States--History--Causes.--Revolution, 1775-1783
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.


Electronic books.

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