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 an Associate Professor of Early American History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her book, Seized with the Temper of the Times: Identity and Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary America, will be published by Westholme in the fall of 2023. She also serves on the 250th American Revolution Historical Commission for Massachusetts.
