From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book tracing the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change tha

By the American Revolution, the farmers and city-dwellers of British America had achieved, individually and collectively, considerable prosperity. The nature an

This groundbreaking book examines the history of Spain, England, the United States, and Mexico to explain why development takes centuries.

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