By Alan Axelrod
"Political heritage of America's Wars" is the 1st reference paintings to discover the legislative, social, and coverage features of America's significant wars, rebellions, and insurrections. This new quantity weaves jointly vital basic resource records, informative biographies, and in-depth essays to supply insurance of the political antecedents, occasions, and outcomes of America's wars, from the yankee Revolution to Operation Iraqi Freedom. "Political historical past of America's Wars" good points: chronological chapters on each one of America's nearly fifty wars, rebellions, and insurrections; in-depth essays discussing America's colonial interval and the Indian Wars, the imperialist period of the past due nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the fashionable period of the United States as international policeman, and extra; fundamental resource records and fabrics on correct laws and congressional resolutions, govt orders, proclamations, lawsuits, and constitutional amendments; and important insurance of war-time occasions and tendencies together with elections and political events, public opinion, propaganda, media insurance, overseas kinfolk, international relations, and treaties and alliances. A worthy word list, a accomplished desk of legislation and treaties, and an index make "Political heritage of America's Wars" a invaluable learn device that would serve researchers in political technological know-how, U.S. historical past, sociology, journalism, geography, and extra.
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Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! No one actually recorded the speech, which has come down through history thanks to Henry’s first biographer, William Wirt, and may well be largely compounded of his imagination.
Recognizing that sentiments were again running high, the king declined to prosecute. Samuel Adams and his circle, however, made sure that the dropping of the case did not calm colonial passions. By 1773 most of Britain’s taxes on import commodities had been repealed—save the tax on tea, which King George III insisted on retaining because he believed that “there must always be one tax” in order to preserve Parliament’s right to tax the colonies. In truth, the tax was not terribly burdensome on the colonists because it was easily evaded.
Worse, royal customs commissioners were now free to engage in a form of racketeering in which they would, for a period, purposely refrain from enforcing the complex technicalities governing the duties, and then, without warning, suddenly crack down, seize all merchant vessels that were not in compliance with the hitherto unenforced regulations, and assess huge duties and fines. By law, of all 13 funds collected, a third went to the royal treasury, a third to the royal governor of the colony, and a third to the customs commissioner himself.