[NonValueAdded]

Yep, LS was the first source I thought to check too.

[anonsquared]

I always turn to Patriot’s History to counteract the bilge from leftists weaned on People’s History.

Amazon sells the paperback for $14.93 and there are some used hardcovers for $22 - 120. Last Christmas Borders had a stack of the hardcovers for $4.99 and I bought the entire lot and gave them as Christmas gifts.

[LS]

Don't forget the rest of our argument in PHUSA, namely that because this essentially involved a tax (indirectly) on paper documents associated with every transaction, including playing cards, the fear bubbling beneath the surface was that somehow the English (Anglicans) were trying to reinstitute control over the American (mostly Puritan/Congregational) churches and their primary requirement that man read the Bible for himself. In other words, there was an element of an assault on religious freedom in this as well.

We see this again in the so called "Intolerable Acts," which placed the colonies under the North American administrative control of CANADA, (i.e., the Catholics). These PERCEIVED anti-religious initiatives by the English have been long ignored or overlooked, yet many American historians today admit that the Revolution was a "religious" event as well as a political event.