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The approach of the 250th anniversary of American independence has led scholars to reexamine the British Empire and the events of the imperial crisis that are generally understood to have led to the American Revolution. The panelists of the keynote session “Could the Empire Have Been Saved?” engage this issue by discussing the problems in the empire revealed by resistance to imperial authority in British America between 1764 and 1774. What kind of empire was it? What was the character of British policy in the colonies? Was the imperial crisis really a general crisis that touched all colonies and all members of British American society? What was driving events forward? Was the American Revolution really inevitable? And might better decisions have avoided it? In engaging these questions, the panelists aim to reveal the broader implications of new thinking about the British empire and the coming of the American Revolution.
This keynote is part of the conference on the theme "Empire and Its Discontent" hosted by The David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society.
The speakers are:
Serena Zabin, Professor of History at Carleton College; she is also immediate past President of the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic.
Patrick Griffin, Professor of History at Notre Dame and Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute. He has written a number of books on eighteenth-century Atlantic history, empire, and the era of the American Revolution.
Christopher Brown, Professor of History at Columbia University, specialized in the history of Britain and the British empire, principally in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with special emphasis on the comparative history of slavery and abolition, and with secondary interests in the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Age of Revolutions.
The discussion is moderated by Brandan McConville, Professor of History at Boston University.
The approach of the 250th anniversary of American independence has led scholars to reexamine the British Empire and the events of the imperial crisis that are generally understood to have led to the American Revolution. The panelists of the keynote session “Could the Empire Have Been Saved?” engage this issue by discussing the problems in the empire revealed by resistance to imperial authority in British America between 1764 and 1774. What kind of empire was it? What was the character of British policy in the colonies? Was the imperial crisis really a general crisis that touched all colonies and all members of British American society? What was driving events forward? Was the American Revolution really inevitable? And might better decisions have avoided it? In engaging these questions, the panelists aim to reveal the broader implications of new thinking about the British empire and the coming of the American Revolution.
This keynote is part of the conference on the theme "Empire and Its Discontent" hosted by The David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society and the Massachusetts Historical Society.
The speakers are:
Serena Zabin, Professor of History at Carleton College; she is also immediate past President of the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic.
Patrick Griffin, Professor of History at Notre Dame and Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute. He has written a number of books on eighteenth-century Atlantic history, empire, and the era of the American Revolution.
Christopher Brown, Professor of History at Columbia University, specialized in the history of Britain and the British empire, principally in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with special emphasis on the comparative history of slavery and abolition, and with secondary interests in the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Age of Revolutions.
The discussion is moderated by Brandan McConville, Professor of History at Boston University.
