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Resistance, Politics, and the American Struggle for Independence, 1765-1775 / ed. by Walter H. Conser, Ronald M. McCarthy, David J. Toscano.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]Copyright date: ©1987Description: 1 online resource (750 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780931477751
  • 9781685852221
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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