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• Author/Creator:Du Rivage, Justin, author.
  
• Title:Revolution against empire : taxes, politics, and the origins of American independence / Justin Du Rivage.
  
• ISBN:0300227655
  9780300227659
  0300214243
  9780300214246
  
• Publication:New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
  
• Copyright notice date: ©2017
  
• Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 371 pages) : illustrations, map.
  
• Links:Online book
  

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• Notes:Text in English.
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• Summary:"Revolution Against Empire sets the story of American independence within a long and fierce clash over the political and economic future of the British Empire. Justin du Rivage traces this decades-long debate, which pitted neighbors and countrymen against one another, from the War of Austrian Succession to the end of the American Revolution. As people from Boston to Bengal grappled with the growing burdens of imperial rivalry and fantastically expensive warfare, some argued that austerity and new colonial revenue were urgently needed to rescue Britain from unsustainable taxes and debts. Others insisted that Britain ought to treat its colonies as relative equals and promote their prosperity. Drawing from archival research in the United States, Britain, and France, this book shows how disputes over taxation, public debt, and inequality sparked the American Revolution -- and reshaped the British Empire."--Provided by publisher.
  
• Variant and related titles:Taxes, politics, and the origins of American independence
  EBSCOhost eBook collection, Yale University Press.
  
• Other formats:Print version: Du Rivage, Justin. Revolution against empire. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
  
• Format:Book
• Series:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
  Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
  
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents:Introduction : Enlightened empire? -- Britain's controversial empire -- Taxing America -- The Seven Years' War and the politics of empire -- The rise and fall of the Stamp Act -- Britain's authoritarian ascendancy -- Sons of Liberty, Sons of Licentiousness -- English blood by English hands -- Conclusion : Republican Empire.
  
• Subjects:American Revolution (1775-1783)
  Politics and government.
  War--Causes.
  Great Britain--Politics and government--1760-1820.
  United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes.
  United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
  Great Britain.
  United States.
  
• Genre/Form:Electronic books.
  History.