This scholarly monograph makes a significant contribution to the history of the American Revolution and is an excellent example of the modern school of historical research.

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Category: History Of Interest: Early Financial History of the United States Financial History of the United States Robert Morris: The Financier and the Finances of the American Revolution The Civil War and the Constitution: 1859-1865

This engrossing study focuses on the role played by colonial merchants in bringing about the separation of the 13 colonies from the mother country. Their most distinctive activity was the formation of non-intercourse agreements--covered extensively in this book because of their influence on the development of the revolutionary sentiment. It is a significant contribution to the history of the American Revolution.

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Arthur Meier Schlesinger (1888-1965) was a foremost American historian. Born in  Xenia, Ohio, he became a professor of history at Harvard (1924-54) after teaching at Ohio State University and the State University of Iowa. In 1928 became an editor of the New England Quarterly. His well-known works in the field of colonial history include The Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, 1763-1776 (1918) and Prelude to Independence: The Newspaper War on Britain, 1764-1776 (1958). He is also known for his interest in the interpretation of social history, as in The Rise of the City, 1878-1898 (1933) and Political and Social Growth of the American People, 1865-1940 (1941). His other books include New Viewpoints in American History (1922), essays on American historiography. With Dixon Ryan Fox he edited the "History of American Life series (13 vol., 1927-48), which remains a valuable examination of U.S. social and cultural life.

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