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Article: The Privileges of Independence: Neomercantilism and the American Revolution.
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- August 1, 1995
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It is always a pleasure to encounter an original and persuasive reinterpretation of an important historical passage, and Professor Crowley of Dalhousie University has presented us with just such a pleasure in The Privileges of Independence. The setting alone gives a lustre to this book, in that its thesis enters and reshapes the crowded and always noisy debate on the course and meaning of the American Revolution. Crowley first assumes a very deep chronology for the event, or process, and so addresses a huge interpretive canon whose themes run from the issues of colonial commerce in the middle of the eighteenth century to the trade problems of the United States in the first ...