In this pathbreaking empirical study, Lee and Paine illuminate the complex ways in which colonialism shaped the prospects for democracy in countries emerging from imperial rule.

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 ...

Thirteen Colonies as a personal reliquary of the remarkable evidence of Black agency and racial oppression stored in public ...

Law – charters, statutes, judicial decisions, and traditions – mattered in colonial America, and laws about religion mattered a lot. The legal history of colonial America ... about each of the five ...

Their main opposition was the English Party, which was mainly supported by Lower Canadians of Scottish, English or American origin and defended the colonial government. The reformist leaders ...