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"If We Clash, We Break": Religion, Republicanism, and Memories of Stuart Tyranny at the Inception of the American Revolution (1760-1766)

Ogle, Tanner
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1554559122305494

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2020, Master of Arts, University of Akron, History.
At the inception of the American Revolution a transatlantic network of Real Whig Dissenters worked tirelessly to prevent what they understood to be the resurgence of seventeenth-century tyranny. For this group, religion and politics were so intertwined that a threat to one posed a threat to the other. However, recent scholarship has underestimated the importance of religion as a leading cause of the American Revolution by diminishing the civil significance of the Bishop Controversy and downplaying the religious implications of civil policies such as the Sugar and Stamp Acts. Drawing from a rich collection of manuscripts, this thesis not only shows that the Bishop Controversy had civil significance, but that Dissenters viewed imperial fiscal policy through a religious lens. This transatlantic group mobilized memories of religious oppression in the seventeenth-century to forge a common identity for British subjects, and some even attempted to influence public opinion by writing histories of England. Appropriating memories of the battles Britons fought to secure religious and political rights in the seventeenth-century, Real Whig Dissenters argued that the Bishop Controversy and the Sugar Act marked the beginning of a new age of a transatlantic imperial tyranny that must be resisted at all costs.
Gina Martino (Advisor)
Michael Graham (Advisor)
110 p.
History; Religious History
Sugar Act; Stamp Act; Bishop Controversy; American Revolution; Memory; Religion

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  • Ogle, T. (2020). "If We Clash, We Break": Religion, Republicanism, and Memories of Stuart Tyranny at the Inception of the American Revolution (1760-1766) [Master's thesis, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1554559122305494

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ogle, Tanner. "If We Clash, We Break": Religion, Republicanism, and Memories of Stuart Tyranny at the Inception of the American Revolution (1760-1766). 2020. University of Akron, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1554559122305494.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ogle, Tanner. ""If We Clash, We Break": Religion, Republicanism, and Memories of Stuart Tyranny at the Inception of the American Revolution (1760-1766)." Master's thesis, University of Akron, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1554559122305494

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