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“order established by the Americans in 1776 also established a hierarchy. It created a hierarchy between men, who benefited from it, and women, whom…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“They took over from the old order not only most of its customs, conventions, and modes of thought, but even those ideas which prompted…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The American revolution not only cost Britain the 13 colonies but also forced it to rethink the slave trade and slavery, and influenced its…

— Linda Colley

The loss of the American colonies was the first time the process of British empire building had been put significantly into reverse, and became…

— David Olusoga

Even leaving aside its military bases, America's influence on the domestic ordering of British life has been enormous, though sometimes unrecognised.

— Linda Colley

In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

From Nato to the U.N. and the E.U., the generation that lived through the first half of the 20th century knew they needed to…

— Ed Davey

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to…

— Queen Elizabeth II

“The United States inherited a seemingly inexhaustible fortune in natural resources, yet it has responded to its environment with a dismaying mixture of materialism…

— Elmo Richardson

Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the…

— Anonymous

It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of…

— Alice Morse Earle

The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and…

— Bernard Bailyn