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British Land Policy And The American Revolution: A Belated Lecture In Economic History, George O. Virtue
British Land Policy And The American Revolution: A Belated Lecture In Economic History, George O. Virtue
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If this were spoken from a pulpit instead of from a teacher's rostrum, I should be disposed to take as a text for what follows a passage from C. W. Alvord's study of The Mississippi Valley in British Politics. From the middle of the 18th century to the Revolution, how to deal with the great valley was, Alvord holds, the number one American problem of every British ministry: How to meet the claims of France to it and how to defend it once her claims were extinguished; how to meet the claims to it of the seaboard colonies by virtue …