TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ammerman,David L.
AU  - Bonwick,C.C.
AU  - Christie,Ian R.
AU  - Conser,Walter H.
AU  - Langford,Paul
AU  - McCarthy,Ronald M.
AU  - Plumb,J.H.
AU  - Thomas,Leslie J.
AU  - Toscano,David J.
TI  - Resistance, Politics, and the American Struggle for Independence, 1765-1775
SN  - 9780931477751
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Boulder : 
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers, 
KW  - HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Part 1 A Decade of Struggle, 1765-1775 --; 1 The American Independence Movement, 1765-1775: A Decade of Nonviolent Struggles --; 2 The Stamp Act Resistance --; 3 The First Rockingham Ministry and the Repeal of the Stamp Act: The Role of the Commercial Lobby and Economic Pressures --; Introduction to Chapter 4 Circular Letters, Customs Officers, and the Issue of Violence: The Background to the Townshend Acts Resistance --; 4 The Nonconsumption and Nonimportation Movement Against the Townshend Acts, 1767-1770 --; 5 British Response to American Reactions to the Townshend Acts 1768-1770 --; Introduction to Chapter 6 Sullen Silence or Prelude to Resistance: Background to the Continental Association, 1771 to May 1774 --; 6 The Continental Association: Economic Resistance and Government by Committee --; 7 The British Business Community and the Later Nonimportation Movements 1768-1776 --; 8 The British Ministers, Massachusetts, and the Continental Congress, 1774-1775 --; Part 2 The Impact of the Struggle --; 9 The Impact of Commercial Resistance --; 10 Religion and the Development of Political Resistance in the Colonies --; 11 English Radicals and American Resistance to British Authority --; 12 A Shift in Strategy: The Organization of Military Struggle --; 13 British Attitudes to the American Revolution --; 14 Resistance Politics and the Growth of Parallel Government in America, 1765-1775 --; Appendixes --; A Examination of Benjamin Franklin on the Stamp Act, 12-13 February 1766 --; B Letter Three of John Dickinson's Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania --; C Excerpt from the Boston Newsletter, 6 July 1769 --; D Virginia Association, August 1774 --; E Suffolk Resolves, 14 September 1774 --; F Continental Association, October 1774 --; G Letters and Diary Extracts of Josiah Quincy, Jr., 1774-1775 --; The Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Analyzing in detail the decade of resistance to British colonial rule leading to American independence demonstrates that deliberate and sophisticated use of nonviolent action - protests, economic boycotts, political noncooperation, and other methods - was crucial to the outcome of the independence movement
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685852221
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685852221
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781685852221/original
ER  -