| Benjamin Franklin Explains the Stamp ACT Protests to Parliament, 1766 Contributor(s): Hoffer, Peter Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199389683 ISBN-13: 9780199389681 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $21.84 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) - History | Revolutionary - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 973.311 |
| LCCN: 2014029519 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (0.44 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Benjamin Franklin Explains the Stamp Act Protests to Parliament, 1766 brings together a unique collection of primary source documents, organized and arranged as a dialogue, to examine the issues surrounding the Stamp Act. The selections--at the center of which is Benjamin Franklin's examination in Parliament on February 13, 1766--are meant to be read as a continuous dialogue among leading colonists in America and politicians in England. While the individual documents were separated in time and space, here they are reconstituted as part of a consistent whole--a trans-Atlantic conversation about the nature of the empire, the rights of the colonists, and the powers of Parliament at a critical moment in American and British history. Some liberty has been taken in their editing in order to emphasize this conversational quality. A chronology preceding the documents indicates the sequence of their production, and a bibliographical essay at the end of the documents directs students to useful secondary sources. |