The Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution: The Causal Relationship Reconsidered

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1980, Pages 85-105

  Greene, J P ^a  

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EID: 84972866541     PISSN: 03086534     EISSN: 17439329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03086538008582563     Document Type: Article

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