2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American historian at Harvard who won two Pulitzer Prizes — The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Voyagers to the West — and who fundamentally transformed understanding of the American Revolution by demonstrating the centrality of the republican tradition (Country ideology) in Revolutionary thought.
J.H. Elliott's 2006 comparison of the British and Spanish empires in the Americas — arguing that the contrasting approaches to colonization (Spanish direct administration vs. English settler colonialism) created the divergent outcomes that explain North-South American differences.