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(0)Jack P Greene
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English
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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 created in America. Rarely considering the high costs...
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English
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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 employed by historians is inappropriate for describing social...
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English
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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 Revolution. Originally published in 1963.
7) The nature of colony constitutions: two pamphlets on the Wilkes fund controversy in South Carolina
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Series
Tricentennial edition volume no. 1
Pub. Date
1970
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
Series
Johns Hopkins symposia in history volume 1st
Pub. Date
1970
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English