Tracts of the American Revolution, 1763-1776Merrill Jensen Hackett Publishing, 2003 M01 1 - 498 páginas This volume brings together seventeen of the most important pamphlets produced by the American colonies as they opposed British measures and policies after 1763, and as they disputed the issue of independence with one another between 1774 and 1776. The most famous pamphleteers--James Otis, John Dickinson, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine--are here; so too are lesser-known ones. Students of American history and political thought will find in these tracts rich evidence of the colonists' grievances against Britain, their methods of persuasion, and the development of political thought that led to the Declaration of Independence. A student-oriented introduction presents a capsule history of the events of the period and an analysis of the context of each tract. |
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The Pamphlet Writers and Their Times | xiii |
Selected Bibliography | lxxi |
An Essay on the Trade of the Northern Colonies | 3 |
The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted | 19 |
The Rights of Colonies Examined 1764 | 41 |
A Letter from A Gentleman at Halifax to | 63 |
Containing Matters | 79 |
Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes | 94 |
The Nature and Extent of Parliamentary Power | 164 |
Extracts from the Proceedings of the Court | 185 |
A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston | 207 |
A State of the Rights of the Colonists 1772 | 233 |
A Summary View of the Rights of British America | 256 |
Massachusettensis and Novanglus 17741775 | 277 |
A Candid Examination of the Mutual Claims of Great | 350 |
Common Sense Addressed to the Inhabitants | 400 |
An Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies | 108 |
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the | 127 |
Addressed to the Inhabitants of America | 447 |