Empire -- The growth of the British empire -- The struture of colonial subordination -- Parliament, the Cabinet, and imperial control -- The ideology of empire -- Resitance -- The course of events, 1767-1776 -- The techniques of resistance -- War -- British conduct of the war -- The war as a revolutionizing process in American society -- The price of victory -- Constitutionalism -- Constitution-making at the sate level -- Organizing the polity -- The Constitution of 1787 -- Constitutionalism and the problem of authority America -- General bibliography -- Photo credits -- Index.
