Benjamin Franklin Explains the Stamp ACT Protests to Parliament, 1766 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199389681)

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.


Author: Peter Charles Hoffer
ISBN-10: 0199389683
ISBN-13: 9780199389681
Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
Language: English
Published: 01/02/2015
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.40d