HSTY2666 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: British America, Vigilante, Guy Fawkes Night
18 Jul 2018
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The american colonies over the course of the 18th c. Gordon wood, the radicalism of the american revolution: "american was only a collection of disparate colonies huddled along a narrow strip of the atlantic coast- economically underdeveloped outposts existing on the very edges of the civilised world. The colonies to which wood is referring, 1760: America was not very colonised very far inland. Most people lived on farms, with the largest "cities" such as boston and philadelphia averaging. Most people lived live in small towns no larger than 2,000 people. Hanging on to existence and isolated from europe. By 1760, the atlantic world was vast, interconnected and economically important. Native american societies had been established for centuries, and european colonies had social and economic footholds for a long time before 1760. The common belief of pre-revolutionary america being isolated in the atlantic isn"t true. Existed in a region which already had a long and complicated history.
