Author: Virginia (Colony) Committees of SafetyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Proceedings of the Committees of Safety of Caroline and Southampton Counties, Virginia, 1774-1776
Author: Virginia (Colony) Committees of SafetyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Proceedings of the Committees of Safety of Caroline and Southampton Counties, Virginia, 1774-1776
Author: Caroline County (Va.) Committee of SafetyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caroline County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Southampton County, Virginia
Author: Thomas C. ParramorePublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Tea
Author: James R. FichterPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501773224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
In Tea, James R. Fichter reveals that despite the so-called Boston Tea Party in 1773, two large shipments of tea from the East India Company survived and were ultimately drunk in North America. Their survival shaped the politics of the years ahead, impeded efforts to reimburse the company for the tea lost in Boston Harbor, and hinted at the enduring potency of consumerism in revolutionary politics. Tea protests were widespread in 1774, but so were tea advertisements and tea sales, Fichter argues. The protests were noisy and sometimes misleading performances, not clear signs that tea consumption was unpopular. Revolutionaries vilified tea in their propaganda and prohibited the importation and consumption of tea and British goods. Yet merchant ledgers reveal these goods were still widely sold and consumed in 1775. Colonists supported Patriots more than they abided by non-consumption. When Congress ended its prohibition against tea in 1776, it reasoned that the ban was too widely violated to enforce. War was a more effective means than boycott for resisting Parliament, after all, and as rebel arms advanced, Patriots seized tea and other goods Britons left behind. By 1776, protesters sought tea and, objecting to its high price, redistributed rather than destroyed it. Yet as Fichter demonstrates in Tea, by then the commodity was not a symbol of the British state, but of American consumerism.
Subject Catalog; of the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Author: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. LibraryPublisher: Greenwood-Heinemann Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
The Source
Author: Arlene H. EaklePublisher: Salt Lake City, Utah : Ancestry Publishing Company
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Useful to the novice searcher, as well as the professional genealogist. Covers all aspects of research--major records, published sources, and special resources.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Author: Daughters of the American RevolutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Writings on American History
Author: Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description