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First edition. Large 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered on the spines in gilt. A very good and pleasing copy, internally very well preserved, the bindings show just a slight bit of typical age evidence.

Edizione: the final volume of a pulitzer prize winning work. a handsome copy of this authoritative work by one of the most distinguished american historians of his time, and one who is widely recognized as a leading authority on american colonial history. andrews led a new approach to american colonial history, which has been called the "imperial" interpretation. andrews emphasized the colonies' imperial ties to great britain, rather than emphasizing conscious british tyranny leading up to the revolution. he saw the clash as the inevitable result of the inability of british statesmen to understand the changes in society in america.