The Stamp Act Crisis

2011-01-20 History

Author : Edmund S. Morgan
Release : 2011-01-20
Genre : History
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Download or read book The Stamp Act Crisis written by Edmund S. Morgan. This book was released on 2011-01-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Impressive! . . . The authors have given us a searching account of the crisis and provided some memorable portraits of officials in America impaled on the dilemma of having to enforce a measure which they themselves opposed.'--New York Times 'A brilliant contribution to the colonial field. Combining great industry, astute scholarship, and a vivid style, the authors have sought 'to recreate two years of American history.' They have succeeded admirably.'--William and Mary Quarterly 'Required reading for anyone interested in those eventful years preceding the American Revolution.'--Political Science Quarterly The Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the American colonies, provoked an immediate and violent response. The Stamp Act Crisis, originally published by UNC Press in 1953, identifies the issues that caused the confrontation and explores the ways in which the conflict was a prelude to the American Revolution.

Past and Prologue

2020-11-24 History

Author : Michael D. Hattem
Release : 2020-11-24
Genre : History
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Download or read book Past and Prologue written by Michael D. Hattem. This book was released on 2020-11-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How American colonists reinterpreted their British and colonial histories to help establish political and cultural independence from Britain In Past and Prologue, Michael Hattem shows how colonists’ changing understandings of their British and colonial histories shaped the politics of the American Revolution and the origins of American national identity. Between the 1760s and 1800s, Americans stopped thinking of the British past as their own history and created a new historical tradition that would form the foundation for what subsequent generations would think of as “American history.” This change was a crucial part of the cultural transformation at the heart of the Revolution by which colonists went from thinking of themselves as British subjects to thinking of themselves as American citizens. Rather than liberating Americans from the past—as many historians have argued—the Revolution actually made the past matter more than ever. Past and Prologue shows how the process of reinterpreting the past played a critical role in the founding of the nation.

Cuba 1933

1972 History

Author : Luis E. Aguilar
Release : 1972
Genre : History
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Download or read book Cuba 1933 written by Luis E. Aguilar. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Coming of the French Revolution

2019-12-31 History

Author : Georges Lefebvre
Release : 2019-12-31
Genre : History
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Download or read book The Coming of the French Revolution written by Georges Lefebvre. This book was released on 2019-12-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of the modern world. First published in 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, and suppressed by the Vichy government, this classic work explains what happened in France in 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. Georges Lefebvre wrote history "from below"—a Marxist approach. Here, he places the peasantry at the center of his analysis, emphasizing the class struggles in France and the significant role they played in the coming of the revolution. Eloquently translated by the historian R. R. Palmer and featuring an introduction by Timothy Tackett that provides a concise intellectual biography of Lefebvre and a critical appraisal of the book, this Princeton Classics edition continues to offer fresh insights into democracy, dictatorship, and insurrection.

Prologue to Revolution

1998 History

Author : Jorge Ibarra
Release : 1998
Genre : History
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Download or read book Prologue to Revolution written by Jorge Ibarra. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces economic development, social dynamics, and political processes in Cuba from the end of Spanish colonial rule to the 1959 revolution. Focusing especially on class structures, gender roles, race relations, and political change, the author describes the social and economic circumstances in which most Cubans lived before 1959, and he explores the complex and compelling relationship between North American capital investment and the formation and deformation of Cuba's national institutions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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