The Rise and Fall of the Stamp Act

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

Justin du Rivage

Yayın yılı:

2017

Yayıncı:

Yale University Press

Dil:

en

This chapter shows why the same politicians who concluded that Pitt's war was an expensive boondoggle also pushed for the taxation of the American colonies. The Stamp Act was part of their broader program of authoritarian reform, which promised to restore Britain's finances and trade through fiscal retrenchment and moral improvement. But it prompted angry denunciations on both sides of the Atlantic. Radical and establishment Whigs accused their leaders of abandoning both the British constitution and the mutually beneficial relationship that had long sustained the empire. When Grenville's ministry fell in July 1765, Britain's new establishment Whig prime minister, the Marquess of Rockingham, seized on the postwar recession to denounce the economic consequences of authoritarian reform. Forging a broad and popular coalition with radical Whigs, Rockingham's administration rolled back Grenville's program, including the Stamp Act.

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