Andrew O’Shaughnessy

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44 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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Noiser Presents · Founding Fathers: The Great Awakening and the Growing Rebellion · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

He felt that governments had become incredibly corrupted.

The same people had been in power for ages.

And what is interesting is that the caricatures and the press were much less deferential to the monarchy in Britain than the Americans.

And they reprinted some of this stuff, but you really don't get Christendom of the King in America until 1774.

Britain in the 1750s and 60s was becoming much more nationalistic and jingoistic.

Franklin complained that the ordinary people in Britain knew nothing about America.

And he also said that every Englishman feels themselves to be governor of America.

We shouldn't just be looking at changes in America, but also in Britain that helped make a clash almost inevitable.

One is the rise of Britain as what some people have called a fiscal military state.

British finances were transformed in the 18th century by the creation of the Bank of England.

And what that allowed Britain to do was to fight wars and to keep a very expensive navy.

And it was the navy that really enabled the British to have a far-flung empire.

Britain was maintaining this empire at great expense, but it wasn't paying for the cost of its administration.

The customs officers in America didn't actually obtain enough revenue even to cover their salaries.

Initially, he's somewhat detached from the real view of Americans.

He opposed the Stamp Act, but once he thought it was going to go into effect anyway, he arranged for one of his friends to become the stamp collector in Pennsylvania.

He was very calculating, but I think it is also a testimony to his fondness for Britain.

Only Pitt really denied the right of Britain to tax America.

The others argued you have the right to tax America, but it's not expedient to do so.

The government was determined to assert a token authority.

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