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Published: 15 December 2023
... entailed reimbursing the East India Company and prosecuting offenders since the Tea Party. The chapter explains how Coercive Acts attempted to divide Massachusettsans from other colonists but only encouraged colonial unity because they were extreme and harmed innocent and guilty Massachusettsans alike...
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Published: 15 December 2023
... the enemy rather than traded for. The chapter explains that one of the consequences of concluding the tea prohibition was the sale of the East India Company's tea in Charleston. In 1776 and 1777, the East India Company's tea helped Patriots pay for the war. The chapter highlights how tea prices rose even...
Book
Published online: 23 May 2024
Published in print: 15 December 2023
...This book reveals that despite the so-called Boston Tea Party in 1773, two large shipments of tea from the East India Company survived and were ultimately drunk in North America. Their survival shaped the politics of the years ahead, impeded efforts to reimburse the company for the tea lost...
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Published: 15 August 2024
..., sparked fears of racial degeneration in Europe. The chapter discusses the dependence of the East India Company on the sale of opium and the evolving understanding of addiction that positioned opium as a critical point in the history of drugs, summarizing three centuries of trends and shaping modern...
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Published: 15 September 2019
...The conclusion revisits the book’s main themes and arguments, now in comparison with the religious situation in the Dutch East India Company and the Catholic empires. The focus is on the different levels of support for clergy and missionary work in the respective companies, colonies, and empires...
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Published: 15 December 2023
...This chapter examines the Charleston Tea Party, which was also known as the tea party that wasn't. It mentions how Charleston was one of four tea shipments the East India Company sent to North America in 1773. Patriots collected tea and burned it in the town center before a crowd, but many...
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Published: 15 November 2023
... to sovereignty of the islands before considering the British East India Company's objective to initiate a trade relationship. diplomacy East India Company Philippines sovereignty Spain Sulu Archipelago Thomas Megan C United Kingdom Borneo Brunei Cotabato Maguindanao Mindanao Tausugs Warren James...
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Published: 15 May 2023
... a series of essays that were published in newspapers and as broadsides in which they argued that the Tea Act threatened colonists' liberties because it gave the East India Company a monopoly in the tea trade. By arguing that the act threatened the public welfare, the McDougallites articulated a refreshed...
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Published: 13 August 2015
... to figure out their place within the British Empire and were surprised to find that their sense of a shared Anglo-American identity was not recognized by British officials of the East India Company during the War of 1812. This chapter explores how the Board's missionaries sought to transform India...
Chapter
Published: 15 December 2023
...This introductory chapter discusses the Boston Tea Party, which did little to turn Americans away from drinking tea and did not create US national identity. It looks into the survival and ultimate consumption of the East India Company's tea in Boston and Charleston and their importance...
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Published: 15 December 2023
...This chapter elaborates on the extent of tea politics. It cites that tea became a symbol of the colonies' political transformation in 1774, referencing how tea symbolized East India Company monopoly, unrepresentative taxation, and parliamentary infringement on colonists' constitutional rights...