BOSTAN TEA PARTY

by Benjamin Labaree ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

The obvious result of monumental research, this scholarly book gives a detailed account of the causes and results of ""those three short hours on a cold December night in 1773 when a small band of men precipitated a reaction that led ... to the Declaration of Independence"" -- the Boston Tea Party. The events leading to the Tea Party covered many years and they are all here: American resistance to Parliamentary tax laws; politics on both sides of the Atlantic; British efforts to coerce the Colonies; American boycotts of British goods, with emphasis on tea. Here, too, is the story of tea-drinking in England and in America, where over a million pounds a year were consumed, and of tea-smuggling, which nearly ruined the powerful East India Company. In 1770 Parliament partially repealed the hated Townsend Act which (among other things) levied a tax on tea imported into American, but it retained the tea duty as a token of its right to tax the Colonies. Parliament also made a private deal with the ailing East India Company, permitting it to dump on the Colonies 600,000 lbs. of tea, untaxed in England but subject to the American import duty. If the Colonies accepted the tea, which by law could not be returned to England, they also accepted Parliament's right

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Publisher: Oxford

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1964

Categories: NONFICTION