Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... important acts , resolves , state constitutions , royal instructions , & c . , not easily obtainable elsewhere , ( c ) samples of the more human varieties of source material , such as debates , letters , pamphlets , Indian relations ...
... important acts , resolves , state constitutions , royal instructions , & c . , not easily obtainable elsewhere , ( c ) samples of the more human varieties of source material , such as debates , letters , pamphlets , Indian relations ...
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... important research during the last decade . Sir G. O. Trevelyan's American Revolution , 6 vols . ( Long- mans , 1917 ) , is the final issue of a work first published in many parts and titles . Covering the period 1766-82 in great detail ...
... important research during the last decade . Sir G. O. Trevelyan's American Revolution , 6 vols . ( Long- mans , 1917 ) , is the final issue of a work first published in many parts and titles . Covering the period 1766-82 in great detail ...
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... important part of the great liberal movement of the eighteenth century , a portent of dominion home rule , and a laboratory of imperial and federal problems . In 1760 , when the Seven Years ' War closed in North America , the English ...
... important part of the great liberal movement of the eighteenth century , a portent of dominion home rule , and a laboratory of imperial and federal problems . In 1760 , when the Seven Years ' War closed in North America , the English ...
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... important step in a new colonial policy . This law had a double purpose , to provide revenue , and to tighten the mercantile system by strengthening the Acts of Trade and Navigation . Since the seventeenth century the colonists had not ...
... important step in a new colonial policy . This law had a double purpose , to provide revenue , and to tighten the mercantile system by strengthening the Acts of Trade and Navigation . Since the seventeenth century the colonists had not ...
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... important pamphlets . 2 6 Geo . III , c . 12 : almost a word - for - word copy of the Irish De- claratory Act of 1719 , 6 Geo . I , c . 5 . 3 7 Geo . III , c . 41 , 46 , 56 ; 8 Geo . III , c . 22 . 4 Channing , iii , chapter iv , should ...
... important pamphlets . 2 6 Geo . III , c . 12 : almost a word - for - word copy of the Irish De- claratory Act of 1719 , 6 Geo . I , c . 5 . 3 7 Geo . III , c . 41 , 46 , 56 ; 8 Geo . III , c . 22 . 4 Channing , iii , chapter iv , should ...
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