This volume brings together seventeen of the most important pamphlets produced by the American colonies as they opposed British measures and policies after 1763

The question of why New Yorkers were such reluctant revolutionaries has long bedeviled historians. In an innovative study of New York City between 1763 and 1776

"This wonderfully rich volume challenges those who claim that political history is arid, narrow, or worse, irrelevant to our own concerns. Jensen's study explor

Too easily we forget that the process of European colonization was not simply a matter of armed invaders elbowing themselves into position to take charge. As Jo