These essays, drawn from the author's work since 1964, address three themes in American history in the century preceding the 1760s: authority in colonial British America; the political and constitutional development of these colonial entities; and shifting constitutional tensions within the empire.
- ISBN10 0813915163
- ISBN13 9780813915166
- Publish Date 29 August 1994
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 July 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Virginia Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 448
- Language English