Pamphlets of the American Revolution, 1750-1776, Volume I, 1750-1765

Edited by Bernard Bailyn

Assistant editor Jane N. Garrett

    GENERAL INTRODUCTION: The Transforming Radicalism of the American Revolution, by Bernard Bailyn The Pamphlets of the Revolution

    Literary Qualities

    Sources and Traditions

    Power and Liberty: A Theory of Politics

    The Logic of Rebellion
    A Note on Conspiracy

    Transformation
    Representation and Consent Constitutions and Rights Sovereignty

    The Contagion of Liberty
    Slavery Establishment of Religion The Democracy Unleashed "Whether Some Degree of Respect Be Not Always Due from Inferiors to Superiors"

    PAMPHLETS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

    1750

    Jonathan Mayhew, A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers
    Boston, 1750

    1760

    A Letter to the People of Pennsylvania; Occasioned by the...Act for Constituting the Judges...During Good Behaviour.
    Philadelphia, 1760

    1763

    [John Aplin], Verses on Doctor Mayhew's Book of Observations on...The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: With Notes, Critical and Explanatory
    Providence, 1763

    1764

    [Richard Bland], The Colonel Dismounted: Or The Rector Vindicated, In a Letter...Containing a Dissertation upon the Constitution of the Colony
    Williamsburg, 1764

    Considerations upon the Act of Parliament, Whereby a Duty Is Laid...on Molasses and...on Sugar
    Boston, 1764

    [Thomas Fitch, et al.], Reasons Why the British Colonies, in America, Should Not Be Charged with Internal Taxes
    New Haven, 1764

    James Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved.
    Boston, 1764

    [Oxenbridge Thacher], The Sentiments of a British American.
    Boston, 1764

    1765

    [Stephen Hopkins], The Rights of Colonies Examined.
    Providence, 1765

    [Martin Howard, Jr.], A Letter from a Gentleman at Halifax, to His Friend in Rhode-Island, Containing Remarks upon a Pamphlet. Entitled, The Rights of Colonies Examined.
    Newport, 1765

    [James Otis], A Vindication of the British Colonies, against the Aspersions of the Halifax Gentleman
    Boston, 1765

    [Benjamin Church], Liberty and Property Vindicated and the St-pm-n Burnt
    Boston ["Reprinted"], 1765

    [Daniel Dulany], Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies for the Purpose of Raising a Revenue
    [Annapolis,] 1765

    [John Dickinson], The Late Regulations...Considered, in a Letter from a Gentleman in Philadelphia to his Friend in London.
    Philadelphia, 1765

    NOTES

    LIST OF PAMPHLETS TO APPEAR IN SUBSEQUENT VOLUMES

    INDEX

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Bernard Bailyn is Adams University Professor, Emeritus, and Director of the International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes) and The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (National Book Award), both published by Harvard.