Independence Day: what is there to celebrate? -- Part I. History of the American Revolution -- Americans with attitudes: smuggling in colonial America -- Liberty and property! The Sons of Liberty and resistance to the Stamp Act -- A misunderstanding, the Townshend Act, and more trouble in the American colonies -- The Boston Massacre -- The Coercive Acts and their theoretical significance -- Fingering the King on the road to independence -- Part II. The Declaration of Independence -- That audacious document: notes on the Declaration of Independence -- Was Thomas Jefferson a plagiarist? -- The philosophy of the Declaration of Independence
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