| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Margaret Ellen Newell. From Dependency to Independence: Economic Revolution in Colonial New England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1998. Pp. x, 329. $39.95.

From the moment of initial European settlement, Americans spent a lot of time trying to make sense of the Old World. Although often proclaiming their own superior virtue, the colonists never severed ties with a complex, dynamic Atlantic system in which migrants and merchants, evangelists and soldiers constantly circulated, challenging at every turn the assumptions and beliefs of Britain's American provinces. 1

Margaret Ellen Newell situates her ambitious survey of economic thought in prerevolutionary New England within this broad interpretive field, arguing that for almost two centuries the people who lived and ultimately flourished in this unpromising region struggled to accommodate their own economic aspirations to the shifting demands of those in London who controlled commercial policy. Newell's New Englanders tried as best they could to transform structural dependency into expansive prosperity, a project so frustrating that ultimately it eroded the bonds of empire. . . .

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