The Colonial Background of the American Revolution: Four Essays in American Colonial History

Charles McLean Andrews

Yale University Press, Jan 1, 1961 - History - 220 pages

Almost universally accepted as the most penetrating analysis of the events leading to 1776, Andrews' classic explores the whole colonial period, as it was viewed on both sides of the Atlantic, beginning with the founding of the Jamestown colony.
"No such balanced and masterly review of Colonial conditions and British colonial policy has ever been given to the public." -Samuel Eliot Morison

Contents

• THE BRITISH COLONIES IN AMERICA: 3
• NIAL POLICY: 69
• OF THE COLONIES: 121
• GENERAL REFLECTIONS: 173

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Colonial Background of the American Revolution: Four Essays in American Colonial History; Volume 44 of Yale paperbound
• Author: Charles McLean Andrews
• Contributor: Leonard W. Labaree
• Edition: unabridged
• Publisher: Yale University Press, 1961
• ISBN: 0300000049, 9780300000047
• Length: 220 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)