Part 1 of 11: British Governance

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Steve Pincus is Bradford Durfee Professor of History and International and Area Studies at Yale and director of the program on British Studies. He has written widely on seventeenth and eighteenth century Britain, most recently 1688: The First Modern Revolution. He is currently at work on a book entitled The Origins of the British Empire ca.1650-1784 and with the Harvard political scientist Jim Robinson The Divergence of Britain: a political account of the origins of the industrial revolution.

Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. He taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan before joining the faculty at Brown in 1969. Wood is the author of The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, which won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize in 1970, and The Radicalism of the American Revolution, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize in 1993. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (2004) was awarded the Julia Ward Howe Prize by the Boston Authors Club in 2005.

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