BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
For the settlement of the Southern and Middle colonies in this period, see Channing History of the United States, II, chaps. II, IV; Andrews, Colonial Self-Government, chaps. VI-VII, IX, XI. The best discussion of the reasons for a revival of interest in the colonies during the Restoration, and of the establishment and practical application of a system of colonial administration and control, is Beer's The Old Colonial System, Part I, 2 vols. See particularly, I, chaps, I-IV. For this subject, see also, Channing, II, chaps. I, VIII; Andrews, Colonial Self-Government, chaps. I-II; Andrews, British Committees, Commissions, and Councils of Trade and Plantations (Johns Hopkins Studies, 1908); and Andrews, The Colonial Period, chap. V. For the relations between England and her colonies in the first half of the eighteenth century, see Dickerson, American Colonial Government (Cleveland, 1912); Andrews, The Colonial Period, chaps. VI, VII; Greene, Provincial America, chaps. II-IV, XI; and Beer, British Colonial Policy, chap. I. The importance of the West Indies in determining the policy of Walpole is brought out by Temperley, American Historical Association Reports, 1911, vol. I, p. 231. For the rise of New France and the conflict of France and England in America, see Fiske, New France and New England, chaps, I-II, IV, VIII-X; Thwaites, France in America, chaps. I, IV, VI, VIII; Channing, II, chaps. V, XVIII-XIX. The most fascinating as well as the fullest treatment of this subject is contained in the works of Francis Parkman. His Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV; Half Century of Conflict, 2 vols., and Montcalm and Wolfe, 2 vols., make a fairly continuous history of the subject from 1672 to 1763.
CHAPTER V
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
America is formed for happiness but not for empire,
Richard Burnaby.
At length one mentioned me, with the observation that I was merely an honest man, and of no sect at all, which prevailed with them to chuse me.
Benjamin Franklin.
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