@article{THESIS,
      recid = {4101},
      author = {Serna Diaz, Anthony},
      title = {The Emergence of Colonial Unity},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {M.A.},
      address = {2022-08},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {Understanding the creation of the United States has proved  to be deceptively tricky for most of the literature;  nationalism and ideology have stood in the way of studying  it without mythologizing. The Emergence of Colonial Unity  proposes that we study the early stages of American unity  by examining the first episode of widespread intercolonial  cooperation without Imperial intervention- The Stamp Act  Congress. It uses the autocatalytic framework developed by  Prof. Padgett, alongside the tools of social network  analysis, complex scientific studies, prosopography,  documentary research, and historiographical inquiry to  present a different explanation for the emergence of  colonial unity that transformed into the organizational  novelty of the United States. It argues that intercolonial  unity did not develop in a single episode, instead it was  the culmination of individual autocatalytic networks inside  the North American colonies -then moving towards neither  independence nor unity- which were primed for tipping when  the Stamp Act was passed, thereby leading to the wholesale  tipping and folding of these networks when they converged  in the Stamp Act Congress of 1765. The Emergence concludes  that had it not been for the various manners in which the  Stamp Act affected internal political and kinship networks  -regardless of their position on it- set thirteen of the  British colonies on path-dependency towards further  intercolonial integration and eventually unity- not in one  fell swoop but by emerging out of the complex system of  North American networks.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/4101},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.4101},
}