{"product_id":"magna-charta-for-america-9798893985467","title":"Magna Charta for America","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy 1750 Great Britain presided over an extensive Amer. empire of 24 separate colonies stretching from Barbados to Newfoundland. These colonies had played a crucial role in Britain’s transformation into a wealthy \u0026amp; powerful state, \u0026amp; Britain endeavored to protect \u0026amp; extend its Amer. dominions during the Seven Years’ War between 1754-1763. Yet at the same time the British gov’t. undertook a series of measures that in rapid succession led to the alienation, military resistance, \u0026amp; loss of 13 of its most valuable \u0026amp; populous older mainland colonies. Why British leaders undertook those measures \u0026amp; persisted in them once the colonists had objected so vehemently during the Stamp Act crisis of 1765-66 \u0026amp; after are, arguably, the most important questions about the causes of the Amer. Revolution. The two book-length treatises in this vol. fully \u0026amp; systematically reveal the mentality, the objectives \u0026amp; considerations that underlay this behavior. They are both the work of James Abercromby (1707-1775), a barrister, former royal official \u0026amp; elected assemblyman in S. Carolina, then agent for N. Carolina \u0026amp; Virginia in London, \u0026amp; later M.P. for Clackmannshire, the family seat, in the Parliament of 1761-68.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jack P. Greene","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48268626755835,"sku":"9798893985467","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/magna-charta-for-america-9798893985467","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}