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Yelps for Liberty: Slavery and the Language of Freedom in the British Empire
How the language of liberty turned against the men who used it, from one day's business at the Board of Trade to Dunmore's proclamation: 1763 to 1775
The Sons of Liberty in New York
How a waterfront crowd in New York City became an organized movement and then something close to a government, from the Stamp Act riots to the royal governor's flight aboard ship: 1763 to 1775
The King's Declaration and the Village Wake: The Book of Sports
How a county order about parish feasts became a royal command read from every pulpit, and then a book burned by the hangman: 1632 to 1644
From Prison to Market: St. Louis and the Opening of the Far West
Failure on the upper Missouri and the year the Far West opened at last: 1810 to 1822
To the End of Time: Quebec from the Proclamation to the Invasion
How Britain promised Quebec an English assembly, gave up on the idea, and held the province when the American invasion came: 1763 to 1775
A Very Violent Attack: Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations
How The Wealth of Nations reached Parliament while its author enforced the laws it condemned: 1776 to 1788
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