Chapter 1. England and Colonial America: A Novel Theory of the American Revolution

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Anglicization
5. Chapter 1. England and Colonial America: A Novel Theory of the American Revolution 9
6. Chapter 2. A Synthesis Useful and Compelling: Anglicization and the Achievement of John M. Murrin 20
7. Part II. Empire
8. Chapter 3. “In Great Slavery and Bondage”: White Labor and the Development of Plantation Slavery in British America 59
9. Chapter 4. Anglicizing the League: The Writing of Cadwallader Colden’s History of the Five Indian Nations 83
10. Chapter 5. A Medieval Response to a Wilderness Need: Anglicizing Warfare in Colonial America 109
11. Part III. Revolution
12. Chapter 6. Anglicanism, Dissent, and Toleration in Eighteenth-Century British Colonies 125
13. Chapter 7. Anglicization Against the Empire: Revolutionary Ideas and Identity in Townshend Crisis Massachusetts 153
14. Part IV. Republic
15. Chapter 8. Racial Walls: Race and the Emergence of American White Nationalism 181
16. Chapter 9. De-Anglicization: The Jeffersonian Attack on an American Naval Establishment 205
17. Chapter 10. Anglicization and the American Taxpayer, c. 1763–1815 226
18. Conclusion. Anglicization Reconsidered 239
19. Notes 249
20. List of Contributors 297
21. Index 299
22. Acknowledgments 311