【单选题】

Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the author's assertion in lines 19-20 that Anderson's theory "is corroborated both by the events of the American Revolution"
A．(A) The American Revolution was largely motivated through a conflict of interest between colonists and the indigenous groups protected by the crown.

B．(B) The consent of the colonists in lower North America could have been obtained more easily than that of British subjects in Canada.
C．(C) The extent of British colonial authority was of a roughly equal degree to that of French authority in lower North America.
D．(D) The British made far fewer impositions on the population of lower North America than those they made in French Canada.
E．(E) The same devolution of imperial agency that took place in India also took place throughout North America.