The First Measures Necessary to Be Taken in the American Department
- Anonymous Pamphleteer 1768 (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
This essay is an anonymous British pamphlet from the height of the imperial crisis preceding the American Revolution. The work concerns British colonial policy toward the American colonies at a particularly tense moment — the same year as the Townshend Acts and growing colonial unrest — and appears to address what administrative or political steps the British government ought to take regarding American affairs.
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