Community without consent : new perspectives on the Stamp Act / edited by Zachary McLeod Hutchins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hutchins, Zachary McLeod.

Series:

Re-mapping the transnational

Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765).

Great Britain.

Riots.

History.

Protest movements.

Taxation--Political aspects.

Taxation.

Stamp Act (Great Britain : 1765).

Taxation--Political aspects--United States--History--18th century.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States.

Protest movements--United States--History--18th century.

Riots--United States--History--18th century.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes.

Great Britain--Relations--United States.

Relations.

United States--Relations--Great Britain.

International relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2016]

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Community without consent.

ISBN:

9781611688818

1611688817

9781611688825

1611688825

OCLC:

921995032