The Boston Massacre The tension between the colonies and Britain was nothing new. There were several occasions where the colonies became greatly infuriated with the unpleasant treatment they were receiving. Prior to the year 1770, much of the outcry came from the acts passed by the British government, such as the Stamp Act, Quartering Act, and Declaratory Act (“A Timeline of the American Revolution”). Even though the colonists were infuriated, it would take something more to push them over the edge
As part of the terms of the peace treaty that ended the war, the French government was forced to cede almost all of its holdings in North America, including Canada, to the victorious British Empire (CITE PEACE TERMS). Despite the fact that Britain was victorious and defeated its French adversaries, it was burdened with massive financial debt after seven years of continuous war against its enemies all around the globe. To finance this heavy debt
123 http://www.futureofchildren.org The Impact of Home Computer Use on Children’s Activities and Development Kaveri Subrahmanyam Robert E. Kraut Patricia M. Greenfield Elisheva F. Gross “I really want to move to Antarctica—I’d want my cat and Internet access and I’d be happy.” —16-year-old HomeNet participant (1995) Kaveri Subrahmanyam, Ph.D., is assistant professor of child development at California State University, Los Angeles. Robert E. Kraut, Ph.D., is professor of social psychology
this was in the early 1970s—after Bob Marley's emergence as an international viii FOREWORD star, after Selassie's arrival in Jamaica, and after so much had been written about the importance of Rastafarianism. The problem was that Rasta was counter to the strong Christian structure that dominated and continues to dominate Jamaican life and was seen first as heretical and misguided before its powerful social and political ideas were fully appreciated. Most important, however, was the Rastafarian
recession of 2008) when one could quite plausibly argue that a new era had begun. A compelling case can be made for viewing the decades of the global scramble for colonies after 1870 as a predictable culmination of the long nineteenth century, which was ushered in by the industrial and political revolutions of the late 1700s. But at the same time, without serious attention to the processes and misguided policies that led to decades of agrarian and industrial depression from the late 1860s to the