No Longer Subjects of the British King
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American Revolution
Articles of Association
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Boston Tea Party
Caesar Rodney
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Charles Thomson
Coercive Acts
Committees of Inspection and Observation
Continental Association
Elite Resistance Fellowship
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First Continental Congress
George III
Intolerable Acts
John Adams
Joseph Galloway
performative politics
Philadelphia
political transformation
Protestant dissent
Samuel Adams
Silas Deane
Thomas Jefferson
Whigs
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- ISBN 9781594164262
- Weight: 513g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Apr 2024
- Publisher: Westholme Publishing, U.S.
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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When news reached Parliament of the Boston radicals’ destruction of the Royal East India Company’s tea, it passed the Coercive Acts, a collection of punitive measures designed to rein in that insubordinate seaport town. The Coercive Acts unleashed a political firestorm as communities from Massachusetts to Georgia drafted resistance resolutions condemning Parliament’s perceived encroachment upon American liberty. Local leaders also directed colonists to refrain from purchasing British merchandise and forego theater, horse racing, and other perceived debauched traditions. Local activists next convened the Continental Congress to coordinate a pancolonial resistance movement to pressure Parliament into repealing the Coercive Acts and settling American rights on a constitutional foundation. Once convened, Congress deftly drafted the Articles of Association. Traditionally understood as primarily an economic response by the colonies to Parliament’s actions, the Continental Association called for public demonstrations of commercial and cultural restraint, conduct delegates hoped would both heal the empire and restore colonial virtue.
Historian Shawn McGhee offers a fresh perspective on the origins of American political identity. No Longer Subjects of the British King: The Political Transformation of Royal Subjects to Republican Citizens, 1774-1776reveals the crucial process by which the Continental Association organized American towns and counties into a protonational community of suffering to protect political identities they felt under threat. This work further demonstrates how those sacrificing for the common cause severed their bonds of allegiance to the British king and separated from the broader imperial nation. In this crucible of austerity, they formed an American political community, completing the political transformation from subject to citizen.
Historian Shawn McGhee offers a fresh perspective on the origins of American political identity. No Longer Subjects of the British King: The Political Transformation of Royal Subjects to Republican Citizens, 1774-1776reveals the crucial process by which the Continental Association organized American towns and counties into a protonational community of suffering to protect political identities they felt under threat. This work further demonstrates how those sacrificing for the common cause severed their bonds of allegiance to the British king and separated from the broader imperial nation. In this crucible of austerity, they formed an American political community, completing the political transformation from subject to citizen.
Shawn David McGhee is a historian of eighteenth-century America and professional educator in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. He earned his PhD from Temple University and lives in New Jersey with his wife and their three children.
