Peripheries and center: constitutional development in the extended polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1788

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
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• PREFACE (page ix)
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• PROLOGUE (page 1)
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• Book One: A Problem Experienced, 1607-1763
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  • CHAPTER ONE In Quest of Periphery Dependence: Crown and Colonies (page 7)
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  • CHAPTER TWO In Quest of Periphery Rights: Local Roots of Constitutional Change (page 19)
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  • CHAPTER THREE An Ambiguous Accommodation: Liberty, Prerogative, and the Imperial Constitution, 1713-1763 (page 43)
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  • CHAPTER FOUR Parliament and the Colonies (page 55)
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• Book Two: A Problem Defined, 1764-1776
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  • CHAPTER FIVE Definitions of Empire, 1764-1766 (page 79)
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  • CHAPTER SIX Parliament, Crown, and Colonial Rights, 1767-1773 (page 105)
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  • CHAPTER SEVEN Disintegration of Empire, 1773-1776 (page 129)
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• Book Three: A Problem Resolved, 1776-1788
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  • CHAPTER EIGHT A Confederation of States, 1776-1783 (page 153)
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  • CHAPTER NINE In Quest of a Republican Empire: Creating a New Center, 1783-1788 (page 181)
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• EPILOGUE (page 212)
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• NOTES (page 219)
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• INDEX (page 267)
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