Introduction: The revolutionary republic of a radical, imperial, whig: the historical and historiographical imagination of John M. Murrin / Andrew Shankman
The great inversion, or, court versus country: a comparison of the revolution settlements in England (1688-1721) and America (1776-1816)
No awakening, no revolution: more counterfactual speculations
The French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the counterfactual hypothesis: reflections on Lawrence Henry Gipson and John Shy
Feudalism, communalism, and the Yeoman freeholder: the American Revolution considered as a social accident / with Rowland Berthoff
1776: The countercyclical revolution
A roof without walls: the dilemma of American national identity
Fundamental values, the founding fathers, and the Constitution
The making and unmaking of an American ruling class / with Gary J. Kornblith
Escaping perfidious albion: federalism, fear of aristocracy, and the democratization of corruption in postrevolutionary America
War, revolution, and nation-making: the American Revolution versus the Civil War
Conclusion: Self-immolation: schools of historiography and the coming of the American Revolution.
