Contributor
Jensen, Merrill.
Imprint:Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, 1967.
Descriptionlxxiv, 498 p. ; 21 cm.
Note:Introduction: The pamphlet writers and their times: 1. The role of pamphlets and newspapers ; 2. British policies and American opposition, 1760-1766 ; 3. British policies and American opposition, 1767-1770 ; 4. The American debate over independence, 1770-1776 -- Editor's note -- TRACTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1763-1776: 1. An essay on the trade of the Northern Colonies (1764) / Stephen Hopkins -- 2. The rights of the British colonies asserted and proved (1764) / James Otis -- 3. The rights of colonies examined (1764) / Stephen Hopkins -- A letter from A gentleman at Halifax to his friend in Rhode Island (1765) / Martin Howard, Jr. -- 5. The Constitutional Courant: containing matters interesting to liberty, and no wise repugnant to loyalty (1765) / William Goddard? -- 6. Considerations on the propriety of imposing taxes in the British colonies, for the purpose of raising a revenue, by Act of Parliament (1765) / Daniel Dulany -- 7. An inquiry into the rights of the British colonies (1766) / Richard Bland -- 8. Leters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the inhabitants of the British colonies (1768) / John Dickinson -- 9. The nature and extent of parliamentary power considered (1768) / William Hicks -- 10. Extracts from the proceedings of the Court of Vice-Admiralty (1769) / Henry Laurens -- 11. A short narrative of the horrid massacre in Boston (1770) / James Bowdoin, Joseph Warren, Samuel Pemberton -- 12. A state of the rights of the colonists (1772) / Samuel Adams? -- 13. A summary view of the rights of British America (1774) / Thomas Jefferson -- 14. Massachusettensis and Novanglus (1774-1775) / Daniel Leonard, John Adams -- 15. A candid examination of the mutual cliams of Great Britian, and the Colonies: with a plan of accommodadtion on constitutional principles (1775) / Joseph Galloway -- 16. Common Sense: addresed to the inhabitants of America (1776) / Thomas Paine -- 17. Plain truth: addressed to the inhabitants of America, containing, remarks ona late pamphlet, entitled Common Sense (1776) / James Chalmers.
Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. lxxi-[lxxii]
