Community without consent : new perspectives on the Stamp Act /

A collection of essays concerning the Stamp Act of 1765 and its impact on colonial America.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Hutchins, Zachary McLeod
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2016]
Series:	Re-mapping the transnational.
Subjects:	Great Britain. > Stamp Act (1765) Taxation > Political aspects > United States > History > 18th century. United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. 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. United States > Relations > Great Britain.

Table of 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.