Abby Chandler, PhD
Seized with the Temper of the Times: Identity and Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary America
A History Camp Discussion with historian Abby Chandler, PhD, who explores, as never before, the complex local and transatlantic tensions which infused the early imperial crisis in her book Seized with the Temper of the Times Identity and Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary America. The book discusses the colonial responses to the Stamp Act were rooted in local tensions and that the Regulator Rebellion was fueled by trans-Atlantic tensions. These two paradoxes, a local crisis cast as imperial affair and an imperial affair cast as local crisis, tell a very different story about the Stamp Act.
[Recorded November 16, 2023]
Abby Chandler, PhD, is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her second book, “Seized with the Temper of the Times”: Identity and Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary America, was published by Westholme in 2023. She is also a gardener and a life-long reader of L.M. Montgomery, and is working on a book which considers Montgomery’s writings about gardens in context with the cottage garden movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
