INTRODUCTION: Three Congresses, Anglo- American Constitutionalism, and British Imperialism and Monarchy

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
4. DOCUMENT CHRONOLOGY xxi
5. NOTE TO THE READER xxvii
6. INTRODUCTION: Three Congresses, Anglo- American Constitutionalism, and British Imperialism and Monarchy 1
7. ACT I: THE STAMP ACT CRISIS, 1764– 1766 21
8. ACT II: RESPONSE TO THE COERCIVE ACTS, 1774 133
9. ACT III: THE FIGHTING BEGINS, 1775 253
10. ACT IV: TOWARD INDEPENDENCE, 1776 369
11. ACT V: NEW NATIONS, 1776– 1777 511
12. APPENDIX: Four Additional Documents, Informative but Off- Stage 641
13. NOTES 671
14. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 707
15. INDEX 719