Jane T Merritt: 2 books
The Trouble with Tea
The Politics of Consumption in the Eighteenth-Century Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Americans imagined tea as central to their revolution. After years of colonial boycotts against the commodity, the Sons of Liberty kindled the fire of independence when they dumped tea in the Boston harbor in 1773. To reject tea as a consumer item and symbol of "taxation without representation"...
At the Crossroads
Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Examining interactions between native Americans and whites in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, Jane Merritt traces the emergence of race as the defining difference between these neighbors on the frontier.
Before 1755, Indian and white communities in Pennsylvania shared a certain amount of interdependence....