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- Community without Consent: New Perspectives on the Stamp Act
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Dartmouth College Press
- Series: Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies
summary
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 problematize 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.
This urgent and original collection will appeal to the broadest of interdisciplinary audiences.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Part 1 | Ritual Responses to the Stamp Act
- Part 2 | The Poetics of Taxation
- Part 3 | The Levy and the Slave
- About the Contributors
- pp. 233-234
Additional Information
ISBN
9781611689525
Related ISBN(s)
9781611688818
MARC Record
OCLC
922799594
Pages
288
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-27
Language
English
Open Access
No