1st Edition

The American Colonies and the British Empire, 1607-1783, Part II vol 8

By Steven Sarson, Jack P Greene Copyright 2011

    This second part of an eight-volume reset edition, traces the evolution of imperial and colonial ideologies during the British colonization of America. It covers the period from 1764 to the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783.

    [Allan Ramsay], Letters on the Present Disturbances in Great Britain and her American Provinces (1777), Thomas Warwick, The Rights of Sovereignty Asserted. An Ode (1777), [Joseph Galloway], Considerations upon the American Enquiry (1779), D. M. Knight, A Proposal for Peace between Great Britain and North-America; upon a New Plan. In a Letter to Lord North (1779), Beilby Porteus, A Sermon Preached before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in the Abbey-Church, Westminster (1779), James Cornwallis, A Sermon Preached in the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ, Canterbury, on Friday, February 4, 1780 (1780), [Josiah Tucker], Dispassionate Th oughts on the American War: Addressed to the Moderate of all Parties (1780), [David Williams], A Plan of Association, on Constitutional Principles, for the Parishes, Tithings, Hundreds, and Counties of Great Britain (1780), [John Almon], The Revolution in MDCCLXXXII Impartially Considered (1782), [Edward Stratford], An Essay on the True Interests and Resources of the Empire of the King of Great-Britain and Ireland (1783), Editorial Notes, Index