Download or read book A Great and Necessary Measure George Grenville and the Genesis of the Stamp Act 1763 1765 written by John L. Bullion and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Grenville could have upheld Parliament's sovereignty, raised revenue, reduced smuggling, and asserted British control over the colonies by lowering the duty on foreign molasses imported into America from sixpence to one penny per gallon. But Grenville chose to set the duty at threepence instead, thereby irritating the mercantile community in the colonies. Would setting the molasses duty at one penny and collecting interest on paper currency have inspired Americans to resist parliamentary tyranny? Perhaps they would have; perhaps not. It does seem certain, though, that if resistance to these policies had occurred, it would have been a resistance shorn of substantial support from merchants, the agricultural elite of the northern colonies, and the planters of the South. In any crisis that might have arisen, Britain would have enjoyed far more support from these powerful groups in American society than she in fact did during the 1760s and 1770s. Thus, different decisions by Grenville might have totally prevented, considerably delayed, or essentially changed the American Revolution. How and why Grenville and his colleagues reached the fateful decisions are the questions examined in this book.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Grenvilles written by J. V. Beckett and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the rags-to-riches tale of the Grenvilles, who rose from the gentry to become dukes, making a fortune and building Stowe, one of England's great country houses, in the process - only to come close to bankruptcy by 1850 and eventually lose their title.
Download or read book George III written by Peter David Garner Thomas and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George III was a high-profile and well-known character in British history whose policies have often been blamed for the loss of Britain's American colonies, around whom rages a perennial dispute over his aims: was he seeking to restore royal power or merely exercising his constitutional rights?
Download or read book The Heart of the Declaration written by Steve Pincus and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening, meticulously researched new perspective on the influences that shaped the Founders as well as the nation's founding document From one election cycle to the next, a defining question continues to divide the country’s political parties: Should the government play a major or a minor role in the lives of American citizens? The Declaration of Independence has long been invoked as a philosophical treatise in favor of limited government. Yet the bulk of the document is a discussion of policy, in which the Founders outlined the failures of the British imperial government. Above all, they declared, the British state since 1760 had done too little to promote the prosperity of its American subjects. Looking beyond the Declaration’s frequently cited opening paragraphs, Steve Pincus reveals how the document is actually a blueprint for a government with extensive powers to promote and protect the people’s welfare. By examining the Declaration in the context of British imperial debates, Pincus offers a nuanced portrait of the Founders’ intentions with profound political implications for today.
Download or read book Desperate Sons written by Les Standiford and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Popular history in its most vital and accessible form. Standiford has recovered the mentality of America’s first group of young radicals, the Sons of Liberty, and tells their story with flair and grace.” —Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers Les Standiford’s Last Train to Paradise, the fascinating true account of the building of a railroad “across the ocean” from Miami to Key West, is already a classic of popular history. With Desperate Sons, the New York Times bestselling author of Bringing Adam Home tells the remarkable story of America’s first patriots, the Sons of Liberty, whose revolutionary acts have become legend. With all the suspense and power of a historical action thriller, Standiford’s Desperate Sons recounts the courage and tenacity of a hardy group that included Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, and John Hancock—radical activists who were responsible for some of the most notorious events leading up to the American Revolution, from the Boston Tea Party to Paul Revere’s fabled midnight ride. Fans of David McCullough’s John Adams and 1776 will be riveted by this true history of young men inflamed by the fires of common purpose who helped a new nation to rise up against its British oppressor.
Download or read book Community without Consent written by Zachary McLeod Hutchins and published by Dartmouth College Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of the Stamp Act in decades, this timely collection draws together essays from a broad range of disciplines to provide a thoroughly original investigation of the influence of 1760s British tax legislation on colonial culture, and vice versa. While earlier scholarship has largely focused on the political origins and legacy of the Stamp Act, this volume illuminates the social and cultural impact of a legislative crisis that would end in revolution. Importantly, these essays question the traditional nationalist narrative of Stamp Act scholarship, offering a variety of counter identities and perspectives. Community without Consent recovers the stories of individuals often ignored or overlooked in existing scholarship, including women, Native Americans, and enslaved African Americans, by drawing on sources unavailable to or unexamined by earlier researchers. This urgent and original collection will appeal to the broadest of interdisciplinary audiences.
Download or read book A History of the Four Georges written by Justin McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Correspondence of William Pitt Earl of Chatham Edited by William Stanhope Taylor and John Henry Pringle written by William Pitt and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Correspondence of William Pitt written by William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Correspondence ed by W S Taylor and J H Pringle the executors of his son John earl of Chatham written by William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Correspondence of William Pitt Earl of Chatham Edited by the Executors of His Son John Earl of Chatham and Published from the Original Manuscripts in Their Possession written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham and his contemporaries written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Correspondence of William Pitt Earl of Chatham written by William Pitt and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Correspondence of William Pitt Earl of Chatham written by William Pitt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published 1838-40, this four-volume collection presents nearly forty years' worth of letters to and from Pitt the Elder.
Download or read book An Abstract of the Deed for Securing the Payment of Mr O Hara s Tontine Bearing the Date the Third of February 1792 written by and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
