Seized with the temper of the times : identity and rebellion in pre-revolutionary America / Abby Chandler

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chandler, Abby, 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765).

Great Britain.

Rhode Island--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Rhode Island.

Rhode Island--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

North Carolina--History--Regulator Insurrection, 1766-1771.

North Carolina.

North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

North Carolina--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

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

United States.

Physical Description:

xxx, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Yardley, Pennsylvania : Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2023.

Summary:

"In Seized with the Temper of the Times Identity and Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary America, historian Abby Chandler explores, as never before, the complex local and transatlantic tensions which infused the early imperial crisis. She argues that colonial responses to the Stamp Act were rooted in local tensions and that the Regulator Rebellion was fueled by trans-Atlantic tensions. These two paradoxes, a local crisis cast as imperial affair and an imperial affair cast as local crisis, tell a very different story than the one to which we are accustomed. Without pre-existing local tensions, the fury of the Stamp Act crisis might not have spilled over during the summer of 1765, and, without the added strains of the imperial crisis, the Regulator Rebellion might not have lasted for five years. The questions about the intersecting roles of local and imperial/federal interests and identities raised during both the Stamp Act crisis and the Regulator Rebellion would also continue to inform political thought in Rhode Island and North Carolina in the coming decades. Both colonies had long histories of challenges to their autonomy and their residents embraced the coming revolution before many of their counterparts, but they would also be reluctant participants in the rising union envisioned by the framers of the Constitution." - publisher

ISBN:

9781594164101

159416410X

OCLC:

1409433191