Revolution, Religion, and National Identity

"Revolution, Religion, and National Identity puts into political and religious context the British government's imperial religious policy for its North American colonies in the fifty years around the American Revolution. Amid the competing claims of Nonconformist churches in the American colonies and of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada, historians have usually ignored or misunderstood the role of the Church of England.

Starting from a discussion of the constitutional and theological basis of the establishment of the Church of England, Peter Doll relates how in response to the events of this period a colonial Anglican church establishment changed from a merely theoretical ideal to a cornerstone of post-Revolutionary colonial policy in British North America."--BOOK JACKET.