Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-302) and index.
Contents:
6. "For the Security and Protection of the Community": Revolutionary State Formation. 2. "For Want of Power": The Search for Order and Government -- 3. The "Stupendous Machine": Imperial Pennsylvania and the Failure of Reform -- 4. "When the Thunder of the Law Sleeps": Regulations for "Liberty and Law" -- 5. "Usurping Powers": Resistance, Rebellion, and Revolution -- 6. "For the Security and Protection of the Community": Revolutionary State Formation.
Summary:
"This book argues that the American Revolution was a response to the inability of individual colonial governments to deliver basic services, thus undermining their legitimacy, as much as the product of the imperial crisis brought on by Parliament's attempt to impose a new idea of empire on the American colonies"-- Provided by publisher.
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