Community without consent
Subtitle: new perspectives on the Stamp Act
By: edited by Zachary McLeod Hutchins
Series: Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Hanover, New Hampshire
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781611689525; 9781611688818
Subjects: Riots; Protest movements; Great Britain; Causes; Taxation; Relations; History
Description: "A collection of essays concerning the Stamp Act of 1765 and its impact on Colonial America"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Stamp Act, from beginning to end / Zachary McLeod Hutchins; title: Part I. Ritual responses to the Stamp Act; title: The sermon that didn't start the revolution : Jonathan Mayhew's role in the Stamp Act riots / J. Patrick Mullins; title: Buried liberties and hanging effigies : imperial persuasion, intimidation, and performance during the Stamp Act crisis / Molly Perry; title: Part II. The poetics of taxation; title: "Daring to try the King's patience?" : (futile?) resistance versus insatiability in Fabula Neoterica / Gilbert L. Gigliotti; title: Letters from a woman in Pennsylvania, or, Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson dreams of John Dickinson / Caroline Wigginton; title: Part III. The levy and the slave; title: The slave narrative and the Stamp Act, or, Letters from two American farmers in Pennsylvania / Zachary McLeod Hutchins; title: "Providence never designed us for Negroes" : slavery and British subjecthood in the Stamp Act crisis, 1764-1766 / Alexander R. Jablonski; title: Part IV. Indians across the Atlantic; title: "Homespun," "Indian corn," and the "indigestible...Stamp Act" : an empire of stereotype in Franklin's letters to the London press / Todd Nathan Thompson; title: Redness and the contest of Anglo-American empires / Clay Zuba; title: Afterword: Corporatism and the Stamp Act crisis.