Economic and social origins of the American revolution / Louis M. Hacker -- 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 spirit of '76 / Carl Becker -- The role of merchants and radicals / James Truslow Adams -- Jack Tar in the streets: merchant seamen in the politics of revolutionary America / Jesse Lemisch -- The American consensus, 1765-1776 / Clinton Rossiter -- The conflict of ideologies in pre-revolutionary America / Elisha P. Douglass -- Political experience and enlightenment ideas in eighteenth-century America / Bernard Bailyn -- What made our revolution? / Jesse Lemisch -- David Ramsay and the causes of the American Revolution / Page Smith -- Rhetoric and reality in the American Revolution / Gordon S. Wood.
