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The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)

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  • Series: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
  • Paperback: 342 pages
  • Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (March 20, 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0807845132
  • ISBN-13: 978-0807845134
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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4.0 out of 5 starsInformative, but Patriotic Bias
By J. Hart on November 11, 2000
Format: Paperback
This work is worth the read simply because of the stature of the author. It remains the most comprehensive treatment of the Stamp Act crisis. Morgan's writing is, as always, highly readable. This interpretation disputes the Progressive interpretation that the colonists were acting merely for economic self-interest. Morgan argues that they genuinely believed in the constitutional principles they advocated, and did not simply use them to "get ahead." The writing has an overly Patriotic slant, however, and would have benefitted from information in Lawrence Gipson's "The Coming of the Revolution," which appeared a year after this publication. Students of the era are better served by Morgan's "Birth of the Republic," which covers a broader period and better explains his anti-Progressive thesis. It contains less of the minute detail relating to the crisis, but maintains his argument. I'm a big fan of Morgan's, by the way.
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4.0 out of 5 starsExcellent treatment
By N. Smith on November 5, 2007
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It is often written that the American Revolution had several causes, the predominant instigator being the 1765 Stamp Act, a resolution that levied a tax against the colonies that the Americans found so reprehensible that it spawned the drive towards revolution. Edmund and Helen Morgan's The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution is a worthy examination of this critical event that factored so heavily in American history. The Morgans focus the Stamp Act's effects on one specific colony, Massachusetts. Through the events leading to its passage, its aftershocks, and its repeal, we see the journey through the eyes of key men such as Governor Francis Bernard, Pamphleteer Daniel Dulany, and royal stamp customs officers Jared Ingersoll and John Hughes. The book follows a fledging country growing through spasms of confusion, chaos, and violence as it replaces its moderation and humility with a radical level of assertiveness and initiative.

The Stamp Act Crisis serves to tell its story from the city of Boston, the nest egg where much of the conflict revolving around the Stamp Act occurred. Morgan details the fallout from the Stamp Act's passage, from the creation of mobs under the guidance of the political elite, to the character makeup of the mob leaders themselves. The mass chaos and almost complete lack of societal functioning is given its due course. With the Stamp Act's law requiring stamped documents for daily business activities like bills of laden for ships and legal documents for lawyers, the absence of these stamps prevented customs houses from clearing ships or courts from hearing cases. Law and commerce effectively ceased. The building discomfort in Boston, and throughout the colonies, was palpable through Morgan's descriptions.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe intellectual argument behind the American Revolution
By T. Graczewski VINE VOICE on September 30, 2010
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First published over a half century ago, the Morgans' "The Stamp Act Crisis" is still the most well-rounded and penetrating account of the political upheaval of 1764 to 1766 that essentially put the American Revolution in motion. The authors combine the very best of narrative history, with a strong focus on some of the most prominent participants in the crisis, many now only footnotes in history, figures such as James Otis, Daniel Dulaney and John Hughes, with a deep analytical analysis of the constitutional arguments that turned two relatively minor taxes on molasses and paper into a political cause that shook the world's most dominating empire to its foundations.

The Sugar Act was intended to help close the gaping hole in the British treasury after the long war with France. By lowering the duty on molasses, but strictly enforcing the new law, the crown hoped to increase desperately needed revenue while not interfering with the flow of colonial trade. Colonial resistance was immediate and vigorous, their opposition to the Act bolstered by the effects of a post-war recession and new restrictive monetary policy introduced by Parliament that prohibited the use of paper money, which crippled the colonial economy that was starved of specie. Pamphlets, such as that by James Otis, "The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved," which denied the right of Parliament to tax the colonies, either internally or by duties on trade, unless they granted the colonies direct representation in Parliament, were generated to defend noncompliance with the Act.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsFischer and reads like a story
By Sherie Ann Peterson on October 25, 2015
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The author's other book The Prologue to a Revolution: The Stamp Act Crisis is a listed on the syllabus by David Hackett Fischer. This book is similar to the books by Prof. Fischer and reads like a story. I am using it as a resource for my website PatriotsAndRedcoats.Com.
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