The American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence : the essays of George H. Smith /

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Main Author: Smith, George H., 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, 2017.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Independence Day: what is there to celebrate?
  • Part I. History of the American Revolution
  • Americans with attitudes: smuggling in colonial America
  • Liberty and property! The Sons of Liberty and resistance to the Stamp Act
  • A misunderstanding, the Townshend Act, and more trouble in the American colonies
  • The Boston Massacre
  • The Coercive Acts and their theoretical significance
  • Fingering the King on the road to independence
  • Part II. The Declaration of Independence
  • That audacious document: notes on the Declaration of Independence
  • Was Thomas Jefferson a plagiarist?
  • The philosophy of the Declaration of Independence.