
These essays, drawn from the author's work since 1964, address three themes in American history in the century preceding the 1760s: authority in colonial British America; the political and constitutional development of these colonial entities; and shifting constitutional tensions...

Drawn from Jack P. Greene's writings of the past three decades, these interlocking essays form an indispensable guide to understanding American history's most neglected years, the century preceding the imperial crisis of the 1760's.