Alvord, Clarence Walworth:

$200 · Offered by William Reese Company

THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY IN BRITISH POLITICS. A STUDY OF THE TRADE, LAND SPECULATION, AND EXPERIMENTS IN IMPERIALISM CULMINATING IN THE AMERICAN ... A thorough study of British imperial practices in the western parts of the American colonies. "Alvord's thesis was that the British failure to promulgate a coherent policy to develop and settle the western regions was a major economic cause of the Revolution" - Clark & Brunet.

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