威尔莫特·沃恩的《1769年英属美洲更好的政府计划:危机阵痛中的帝国幻想》

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P. Olsen-Harbich
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本文首次介绍并出版了威尔莫特·沃恩的《英属美洲更好的政府计划》(1769年)。沃恩在贸易委员会任职一年期间撰写了这份手稿,目前由纽约历史学会保管。沃恩认为,如果英国不能从根本上改变其帝国的宪法基础和制度机构,帝国危机将不可避免地导致美国革命。为了防止这样的叛乱,他提出了37项不同的改革建议,包括建立一个新的“北美和群岛王国”,由美国议会管理,由一名行政中尉领导,他住在一座设防的波士顿宫殿里。虽然沃恩的一些建议是有先见之明的,但也有一些建议反映了他对英国北美白人殖民者的心态和政治的完全误解,尤其是他对圣公会机构和土著代表团参加新美国议会的建议。《改善英属美洲政府的计划》揭示了英国帝国主义者在18世纪60年代美国殖民地走向叛乱时想象力的局限和无知程度。
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Wilmot Vaughan's A Plan for the better Government of British America, 1769: Imperial Fantasies in the Throes of Crisis
abstract:This essay introduces and prints for the first time Wilmot Vaughan's A Plan for the better Government of British America (1769). Vaughan authored this manuscript, currently held by the New-York Historical Society, while serving a single-year term on the Board of Trade. Vaughan believed that the imperial crisis would lead inexorably to an American revolution if Britain failed to radically alter the constitutional basis and institutional apparatus of its empire. To prevent such a revolt, he recommended thirty-seven distinct reforms, including the creation of a new "Kingdom of North America and the Isles," one governed by an American parliament and headed by an executive Lord Lieutenant lodged in a fortified Bostonian palace. Though some of Vaughan's recommendations were prescient, others reflect a complete misunderstanding of the mentality and politics of Britain's white North American colonists, particularly his prescriptions for Anglican establishments and Indigenous delegations to the new American parliament. A Plan for the better Government of British America reveals the limits of imagination and the extent of ignorance among Britain's imperialists as its American colonies hurdled toward rebellion in the 1760s.
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