Brendan McConville, The King’s Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Early America, 1688-1776 (University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 2006), 1-11, 81-169. Electronic version here

Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton, The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000 (New York: Viking, 2005), 54-103. Electronic version here

Brian Cowan, 'Geoffrey Holmes and the Public Sphere: August Historiography from Post-Namierite to Post-Habermasian', Parliamentary History 28 (2009).

Christopher L. Tomlins, Freedom Bound : Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865(New York, 2010), chapter eight.

William M. Offutt, “The Atlantic rules: the legalistic turn in colonial British America” in Elizabeth Mancke and Carole Shammas, The Creation of the British Atlantic World. Anglo-America in the Trans-Atlantic World(Baltimore, 2005), chapter seven.

Mark R. Valeri, Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America (Princeton, 2010), chapter four. Electronic version here