The old colonial system

Author: Gerald Berkeley Hurst
Title: The old colonial system
Publisher: Manchester : University press
Subject (keywords, tags): Great Britain -- Colonies Administration; Great Britain -- Colonies America

Description:

Introduction.--Great Britain and the seven years' war.--Pitt's influence as minister.--The old colonial theory.--Dialectics on the question of taxation.--British feeling towards American in 1775.--Chatham and Burke.--"United empire" loyalty.--The war spirit in England, 1775-1783.--Britain's conduct of the war.--Colonial theory in land, 1775-1783.--"Hands across the sea."--Lessons of the American revolution

Contributor: University of California Libraries
Format: txt
Size: 162 kb

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