Böcker av Gwenda Morgan

"The British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800 provides a comprehensive history of this complex period and explores the contrasting worlds of the British and the French Empires as they strove to develop new societies in the Americas"--

'Who will write the History of the American Revolution' asked a worried John Adams, and 'who will ever write it? This book is an attempt to answer these questions. Examining the many histories of the American Revolution and Constitution, it looks at how the transition from amateur to professional transformed the interpretation of the Revolution. -- .

This is the first major study of the convict in the Atlantic world of the eighteenth century. In addition, the exchange of representations between the two sides of the Atlantic, and the changing American reaction to convicts, are placed within the growing transatlantic debate on transportation before the American Revolution.

Tew as lone magistrate in violent Sunderland/South Shields area deals with problems such as vagrancy, employment, theft, assault etc - resolving issues largely in his own home rather than in court.

A study of crime and law enforcement in the north-eastern counties between the Transportation Act of 1718 and the "Bloody Code" of the 1800s - the key period of debate in the history of English crime.