Let’s take a journey through history and explore what made these colonies tick. Imagine the 1600s: The British government, along with other European powers, saw the American continent as a land ...

Which British colony was the wealthiest? Conjectures about the real and nominal incomes in the 13 American colonies can now be made with new data. Historically, New England has been poor, and the ...

The British needed to station a large army in North America ... Sean Harris, Committee Assistant for the Petitions Committee, writes about the petition of Britain's American Colonies against the 1765 ...

He also asserts that " an American can import ... that it is the duty of the British Government to provide a means for foreigners obtaining patents in the colonies, since they cannot obtain ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately 1.5 million. In addition to settlers from Great Britain, a steady stream of German immigrants began to arrive ...

These were all controversial measures, and the Quebec Act in particular was criticised in both Britain and the American colonies as an indication of the growing despotic character of the British ...

which granted the British East India Company a monopoly to sell tea in the American colonies. Protests throughout Boston were swift and intense. When three tea ships arrived in Boston Harbor ...

The American colonies led Great Britain in purchasing power per capita from 1700, and possibly from 1650, until 1774, even counting slaves in the population. That is, average purchasing power in ...

People in Africa were burdened by colonial perceptions of who they were. The British believed Africans were essentially different from Europeans and would stay that way. This point of view invited ...