Empire transformed: Britain in the American classical imagination, 1758-1783. From: Early American Studies | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: Shalev, Eran | COPYRIGHT 2006 University of Pennsylvania Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The distinguished South Carolinian planter and merchant Henry Laurens, imprisoned in the Tower of London during the last years of the War for American Independence on charges of high treason against the British crown, had plenty of time to contemplate the origins and meaning of the enduring imperial contest. While awaiting judgment in the Tower, after he was caught on a boat sailing to Holland to negotiate a loan for his struggling republic, Laurens kept a prison journal into which ...

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