Economic and social origins of the American Revolution / Louis M. Hacker -- A note on the economic interpretation / Charles M. Andrews -- Were the Navigation Acts oppressive? / Oliver M. Dickerson -- The American Revolution as an aftermath of the great war for the empire, 1754-1763 / Lawrence Henry Gipson -- British provocations in the movement for independence / Bernhard Knollenberg -- The American consensus, 1765-1776 / Clinton Rossiter -- Democracy and the American Revolution / Merrill Jensen -- The spirit of '76 / Carl Becker -- The role of merchants and radicals / James Truslow Adams -- David Ramsay and the causes of the American Revolution / Page Smith.