Book Review On Theodore Draper’s A Struggle For Power: The A

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colonies, which placed monetary control of public funds with the colonial assemblies. Thus, he focuses on actions of both sides from then until the beginning of the War. He argues that the British dependence of American trade and the Colonies’ phenomenal population growth only intensified Americans’ desire to control their own destiny.
Draper, widely recognized as one of the most important historians, makes a clear and bold argument about one of the most critical events in our nation’s past. Draper shows that the American Revolution was not a contrast of ideologies, but a struggle for power between the power the British wanted to exercise over the Americans, and the power the Americans wanted to exercise over themselves. The author boldly and clearly shows this while drawing on a wealth of contemporary documents, as well as recent scholarship. His argument is quite strong and ardent, as he demonstrates that English politicians were starting to worry about their colonies’ growing ...

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