Economic and Social Origins of the American Revolution / Louis M. Hacker 1 -- A Note on the Economic Interpretation / Charles M. Andrews 18 -- Were the Navigation Acts Oppressive? / Oliver M. Dickerson 22 -- The American Revolution as an Aftermath of the Great War for the Empire, 1754-1763 / Lawrence Henry Gipson 37 -- British Provocations in the Movement for Independence / Bernhard Knollenberg 50 -- The American Consensus, 1765-1776 / Clinton Rossiter 54 -- Democracy and the American Revolution / Merrill Jensen 71 -- The Spirit of '76 / Carl Becker 86 -- The Role of Merchants and Radicals / James Truslow Adams 104 -- David Ramsay and the Causes of the American Revolution / Page Smith 113