First Published in 1980. The dynamism within the American colonies in the fifty years or so before the outbreak of the crisis of the 1760s that was to lead to the Revolution has never been in doubt. The articles written included in this text suggest a number of ways in which the 'imperial factor' was of real importance in colonial life and show that there was dynamism on the British side as well as in the colonies.
Preface, The Empire and the Provincial Elites: An Interpretation of some Recent Writings on the English Atlantic, 1675-1740, The Board of Trade and London-American Interest Groups in the Eighteenth Century, Warfare and Political Change in Mid-Eighteenth Century Massachusetts, British Government Spending and the North American Colonies 1740-1775, The Seven Years' War and the American Revolution: the Causal Relationship Reconsidered, Old Whigs, Old Tories and the American Revolution
