The Mississippi Valley in British Politics: A Study of the Trade, Land Speculation (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Mississippi Valley in British Politics: A Study of the Trade, Land SpeculationIn my humorous moods - for such come even to the most dry as dust historians - I have a vision of some future critic chuckling over my rashness in writing a drama of the pre-revolutionary era with several well known Hamlets omitted. Within these pages the stereotyped narrative of events preceding the American Revolution is not to be found. To seek the material for a history of the period wholly outside that conse crated circle which encloses such important and por tentons events as the Boston massacre and the famous tea-party must appear to the general reader to be in itself revolutionary. I confess that to me, whose early impressions of life were received in a small town of Massachusetts, the act sometimes appears one of mild bravado. Yet while I am writing the preface, where surely my imagination may be permitted to take a higher flight than when restrained by the somber chron icling of serious history, let me forget for a moment my critic and boldly assert that whenever the British min isters soberly and seriously discussed the American prob lem, the vital phase to them was not the disturbances of the madding crowd of Boston and New York but the development of that vast transmontane region that was acquired in 1763 by the Treaty of Paris.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.