This early work by Charles M. Andrews was originally published in 1924 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. The Colonial Background of the American Revolution - Four Essays in America Colonial History is one of the key works of the Imperial school of American Revolutionary scholarship. Charles McLean Andrews was born on February 22, 1863 in Connecticut, America. Andrews attended Trinity College in Connecticut in 1884 where he received his A.B., and following this he obtained his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1889. He was a professor at Bryn Mawr...