When American historians shifted their focus away from the history abroad during the colonial era to a social and closer to home history, T. H. Breen reveals the transformations that Britain experienced and how they affected the colonists. In the 1960’s, historians such as Edmund Morgan placed the history of Britain aside because its depiction as an unchanging nation thus having little to no effect on colonists. However, Breen claims that this would be the easy explanation for who was responsible for the revolution, and instead he argues that Britain was dynamic and growing during the eighteenth century; three of the key developments he lists that occur in Britain are: a superior military, a consumer marketplace, a new social group, and a resurgence of nationalism. These three changes can be placed into two categories, the first two as changes that illicit only complaints from the colonists and the final change a request for reform. Britain gradually rose in military strength, but when
When American historians shifted their focus away from the history abroad during the colonial era to a social and closer to home history, T. H. Breen reveals the transformations that Britain experienced and how they affected the colonists. In the 1960’s, historians such as Edmund Morgan placed the history of Britain aside because its depiction as an unchanging nation thus having little to no effect on colonists. However, Breen claims that this would be the easy explanation for who was responsible for the revolution, and instead he argues that Britain was dynamic and growing during the eighteenth century; three of the key developments he lists that occur in Britain are: a superior military, a consumer marketplace, a new social group, and a resurgence of nationalism. These three changes can be placed into two categories, the first two as changes that illicit only complaints from the colonists and the final change a request for reform. Britain gradually rose in military strength, but when