Preliminaries; Contents; Notes on the Contributors; Preface; The Empire and the Provincial Elites; The Board of Trade and London-American Interest Groups in the Eighteenth Century; Warfare and Political Change in Mid-Eighteenth Century Massachusetts; British Government Spending and the North American Colonies 1740-1775; The Seven Years' War and the American Revolution: the Causal Relationship Reconsidered; Old Whigs, Old Tories and the American Revolution