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PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION The demand for a second edition of The Twenty Years' Crisis faced the author with a difficuh decision. A work on international politics completed in the summer of 1939, however rigorously it eschewed prophecy, necessarily bore marks of its time in substance, in...

Editors^ Introduction T ^HE twentieth century has rediscovered the cultural life of the colonial period. The reconstruction of colonial Williamsburg, the skillful assemblage of such superb collections as those housed in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Henry Francis...