A Mighty EmpireFirst published in 1988, Marc Egnal's now classic revisionist history of the origins of the American Revolution, focuses on five coloniesMassachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolinafrom 1700 to the post Revolutionary era. Egnal asserts that throughout colonial America the struggle against Great Britain was led by an upper class faction motivated by a vision of the rapid development of the New World. In each colony the membership