pt. 1. Changing historical perspectives: The "new" history -- Perspectives on American history -- Beyond power: Paradigm subversion and reformulation and the re-creation of the early modern Atlantic world -- pt. 2. Colonial British America: The colonial era: an interview -- Changing interpretations of early American politics -- The American colonies during the first half of the eighteenth century -- The development of early American culture -- Autonomy and stability: New England and the British colonial experience in early modern America -- Society and economy in the British Caribbean during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Coming to terms with diversity: Pluralism and conflict in the formation of colonial New York -- Chesapeake transformations: The traditionalizing of an English new world society -- The Southern colonial mind and American culture -- Restructuring British-American colonial history with J.R. Pole -- Colonial New England in recent historiography -- Reading Pursuits of happiness: a primer -- Interpretive frameworks: The quest for intellectual order in early American history -- pt. 3. The American Revolution: The flight from determinism: A review of recent literature on the coming of the American Revolution -- The plunge of lemmings: A consideration of recent writings in British politics and the American Revolution -- The reappraisal of the American Revolution in recent historical literature -- Beyond the neo-Whig paradigm: Trends in the historiography of the American Revolution, 1968-76 -- Jeffersonian Republicans and the "modernization" of American political consciousness -- From the perspective of law: Context and legitimacy in the origins of the American Revolution -- The American Revolution revisited.
