title: Empire and Nation: The American Revolution in the Atlantic World (Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World)
author:  Eliga H. Gould 
description: <P>"The essays in this collection are in turns stimulating, provocative, and enlightening. They represent some of the best new work on the political history of the American Revolution and highlight some promising new directions in Atlantic history."</P> (<i>Journal of Southern History</i>)<br /><br /><P>"The many interesting essays in this volume together constitute a valuable scholarly contribution."</P> (Eric Hinderaker <i>Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History</i>)<br /><br /><P>"Taken together, these essays whet the reader's appetite for more."</P> (Colin Bonwick <i>Journal of American History</i>)<br /><br /><P>"Exciting new collection."</P> (Peter A. Coclanis <i>New West Indian Guide</i>)<br /><br /><P>"A stout, wide-ranging and well-produced volume which includes many useful contributions and testifies to ways in which the American Revolution has now been accommodated."</P> (<i>Journal of American Studies</i>)<br /><br /><P>"In very thin disguise, this book is a thoroughly deserved festschrift for Johns Hopkins historian and long-time <I>Doktorvater,</I> Jack P. Greene."</P> (Edward Countryman <i>Journal of the Early Republic</i>)<br /><br /><P>"An excellent collection of specialized monographs on a variety of topics in the reformation of the British Empire following the Seven Years War."</P> (Wayne F. Anderson <i>Sixteenth Century Journal</i>)<br /><br /><P>"This collection of essays represents an important and rigorously-researched body of scholarship."</P> (James E. Bradley <i>Parliamentary History</i>)
zlib_text: #  THE BRITISH ATLANTIC EMPIRE BEFORE  
  THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
  
  
  #  **The British Atlantic Empire**  
  **before the American Revolution**
  
  Edited by  
    
  
  ##  **Peter Marshall** and **Glyn Williams**  
    
    
    
  
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  _First published 1980 in Great Britain by_  
  FRANK CASS AND COMPANY LIMITED  
  Gainsborough House, Gainsborough Road,  
  London, E11 1RS England
  
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  Copyright © 1980 Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.
  
  British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  
  The British Atlantic Empire before the American Revolution.  
  1\. North America—History—Colonial period, 