SEIZED WITH THE TEMPER OF THE TIMES: Identity and Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary America

1-250830

Details the complexities and seeming contradictions during both the Stamp Act crisis and the Regulator Rebellion, while also telling a broader story about the evolution of American political thought in the decades surrounding the American Revolution. Explores the complex local and transatlantic tensions which infused the early imperial crisis. Argues that colonial responses to the Stamp Act were rooted in local tensions and that the Regulator Rebellion was fueled by trans-Atlantic tensions. These two paradoxes, a local crisis cast as imperial affair and an imperial affair cast as local crisis, tell a very different story than the one to which we are accustomed. Contains 20 illustrations.