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  • The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution

    by Jack P. Greene ...
    Series series New Histories of American Law
    Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental colonies seceding from the empire in 1776. Challenging those historians who have assumed that the British had the law on their side during the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Pursuits of Happiness

    The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture

    by Jack P. Greene ...
    In this book, Jack Greene reinterprets the meaning of American social development. Synthesizing literature of the previous two decades on the process of social development and the formation of American culture, he challenges the central assumptions that have traditionally been used to analyze colonial British American history.Greene argues that the New England declension model traditionally ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Quest for Power

    The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776

    by Jack P. Greene ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In this study, Greene describes the rise of the lower houses in the four southern royal colonies — Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia — in the period between the Glorious Revolution and the American War for Independence. It assesses the consequences of the success of the lower houses, especially the relationship between their rise to power and the coming of the American ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain

    by Jack P. Greene ...
    This volume comprehensively examines how metropolitan Britons spoke and wrote about the British Empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790. The work argues that following several decades of largely uncritical celebration of the empire as a vibrant commercial entity that had made Britain prosperous and powerful, a growing familiarity with the character of overseas ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Intellectual Construction of America

    Exceptionalism and Identity From 1492 to 1800

    by Jack P. Greene ...
    Jack Greene explores the changing definitions of America from the time of Europe’s first contact with the New World through the establishment of the American republic. Challenging historians who have argued that colonial American societies differed little from those of early modern Europe, he shows that virtually all contemporary observers emphasized the distinctiveness of the new worlds being ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Creating the British Atlantic

    Essays on Transplantation, Adaptation, and Continuity

    by Jack P. Greene ...
    Series series Early American Histories
    Set mostly within an expansive British imperial and transatlantic framework, this new selection of writings from the renowned historian Jack P. Greene draws on themes he has been developing throughout his distinguished career. In these essays Greene explores the efforts to impose Old World institutions, identities, and values upon the New World societies being created during the colonization ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The American Colonies and the British Empire, 1607-1783, Part I Vol 1

    by Steven Sarson, Jack P Greene ...
    This first part of an eight-volume reset edition, traces the evolution of imperial and colonial ideologies during the British colonization of America. It covers the period from the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1607 to 1764. ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • Nationalism in the New World

    by Barbara Weinstein, Craig Calhoun, Eric Van Young, Gary Gerstle, Hayley Froysland, Heather Thiessen-Reily, Jack P. Greene, Jeane DeLaney, Jorge Myers, Phillip Buckner, Susan-Mary Grant, T. H. Breen, Wilma Peres Costa ...
    Nationalism in the New World brings together work by scholars from the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe to discuss the common problem of how the nations of the Americas grappled with the basic questions of nationalism: Who are we? How do we imagine ourselves as a nation? Debates over the origins and meanings of nationalism have emerged at the forefront of the humanities and social ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The American Colonies and the British Empire, 1607-1783, Part II vol 7

    by Steven Sarson, Jack P Greene ...
    This second part of an eight-volume reset edition, traces the evolution of imperial and colonial ideologies during the British colonization of America. It covers the period from 1764 to the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783. ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • The American Colonies and the British Empire, 1607-1783, Part I Vol 4

    by Steven Sarson, Jack P Greene ...
    This first part of an eight-volume reset edition, traces the evolution of imperial and colonial ideologies during the British colonization of America. It covers the period from the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1607 to 1764. ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • The American Colonies and the British Empire, 1607-1783, Part II vol 6

    by Steven Sarson, Jack P Greene ...
    This second part of an eight-volume reset edition, traces the evolution of imperial and colonial ideologies during the British colonization of America. It covers the period from 1764 to the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783. ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • The American Colonies and the British Empire, 1607-1783, Part II vol 8

    by Steven Sarson, Jack P Greene ...
    This second part of an eight-volume reset edition, traces the evolution of imperial and colonial ideologies during the British colonization of America. It covers the period from 1764 to the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783. ... Read more

    $225.00 USD