Description
The paper argues that previous explanations of the American revolution, both fiscal-pressure (Wallerstein 1989) and abolitionism (Horne 2014) based, leave fundamental questions about the revolution unanswered and suggests that to comprehend this transformation requires a PM-inspired, radical historicist assessment of the complex entanglements engendered by competing British and French social property regimes and strategies of colonialism in North America. The paper underlines the importance of the previously sidelined British interloping merchants in the republican uprising and democratic constitution of the early American state.
