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73 produkter
Atlantic History
A Critical Appraisal
Av Philip D. Morgan, Jack P. Greene
E-bok, 2008
403 kr
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Atlantic history, with its emphasis on inter-regional developments that transcend national borders, has risen to prominence as a fruitful perspective through which to study the interconnections among Europe, North America, Latin America, and Africa. These original essays present a comprehensive and …
Atlantic History
A Critical Appraisal
Av Philip D. Morgan, Jack P. Greene
E-bok, 2008
453 kr
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Atlantic history, with its emphasis on inter-regional developments that transcend national borders, has risen to prominence as a fruitful perspective through which to study the interconnections among Europe, North America, Latin America, and Africa. These original essays present a comprehensive and …
Quest for Power
The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Souther Royal Colonies, 1689-1776
Häftad, 1972
412 kr
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In this book, Jack P. Greene describes the rise of the lower houses in the four southern royal colonies--Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia--that reflects a process occurring throughout the colonies in the period between the Glorious Revolution and the American War for …
Society, Freedom, and Conscience
Av Jack P. Greene, Richard L. Bushman m. fl.
Häftad, 1977
300 kr
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Colonies to Nation, 1763-1789
A Documentary History of the American Revolution
Häftad, 1975
477 kr
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In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it—for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. …
Peripheries and Center
Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1788
Häftad, 1990
309 kr
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To Great Britain in the seventeenth century, and then to the fledgling United States, no problem was more urgent than how to divide authority between local powers and the governing central power. In this book the noted colonial historian Jack P. Greene traces the search for solutions.
Companion to the American Revolution
E-bok, 2008
2416 kr
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A Companion to the American Revolution is a single guide to the themes, events, and concepts of this major turning point in early American history. Containing coverage before, during, and after the war, as well as the effect of the revolution on a global scale, this major reference to the period is …
Exclusionary Empire
English Liberty Overseas, 1600-1900
Inbunden, 2009
1190 kr
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Consisting of an introduction and ten chapters, Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900. Each chapter is written by a noted specialist and focuses on a particular area of the settler empire - Colonial North America, …
The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution
Häftad, 2010
385 kr
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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. …
Exclusionary Empire
English Liberty Overseas, 1600-1900
Häftad, 2009
502 kr
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Consisting of an introduction and ten chapters, Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900. Each chapter is written by a noted specialist and focuses on a particular area of the settler empire - Colonial North America, …
The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution
Inbunden, 2010
854 kr
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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. …
Blackwell Dictionary of Historians
Av John Cannon, William Doyle m. fl.
Inbunden, 1988
686 kr
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The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians provides an authoritative and readable source book for students and specialists. It includes entries on over 450 historians, dating from Herodotus to the present. Individuals have not necessarily been chosen on account of the importance of their own research …
Companion to the American Revolution
Inbunden, 2000
2070 kr
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A Companion to the American Revolution is a single guide to the themes, events, and concepts of this major turning point in early American history. Containing coverage before, during, and after the war, as well as the effect of the revolution on a global scale, this major reference to the period is …
Neither Slave nor Free
The Freedman of African Descent in the Slave Societies of the New World
Av David W. Cohen, Jack P. Greene m. fl.
Häftad, 1974
414 kr
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These ten essays constitute "a distinctive contribution to the enticing but treacherous domain of a comparative history. (The book) succeeds because it is written by qualified scholars who address a delimited, manageable subject" ("American Historical Review").
Colonial British America
Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era
Häftad, 1984
468 kr
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"Taken together, these essays constitute a better summing up--part critique, part appreciation--than anything else in print of work done in any field of American history. Nowhere else can we learn so easily and so well what to read about colonial America...A very useful volume of considerable …
Quest for Power
The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776
Häftad, 2012
707 kr
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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 …
Pursuits of Happiness
The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture
Häftad, 1988
488 kr
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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 …
Intellectual Construction of America
Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 to 1800
Häftad, 1997
486 kr
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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 …
Intellectual Construction of America
Exceptionalism and Identity From 1492 to 1800
E-bok, 2000
520 kr
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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 …
Pursuits of Happiness
The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture
E-bok, 2004
518 kr
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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 …
Landon Carter
An Inquiry Into the Personal Values and Social Imperatives of the Eighteenth-century Virginia Gentry
Häftad, 1978
240 kr
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Imperatives, Behaviors and Identities
Essays in Early American Cultural History
Av Jack P. Greene, Jack P. Greene
Häftad, 1992
382 kr
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This work brings together 16 essays in cultural history. Taken together, the essays aim to provide a reassessment of the complex process of cultural adjustment among the settler societies of colonial British and revolutionary America. ""Imperatives, Behaviors, and Identities"" looks at aspects of …
Negotiated Authorities
Essays in Colonial, Political and Constitutional History
Häftad, 1994
382 kr
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These essays, drawn from the author's work since 1964, address three themes in American history in the century preceding the 1760s: authority in colonial British America; the political and constitutional development of these colonial entities; and shifting constitutional tensions within the empire.
Understanding the American Revolution
Issues and Actors
Inbunden, 1995
1013 kr
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This volume brings together 16 essays on the American revolution which approach the revolution as an episode in British imperial history rather than as the first step in the creation of an American nation. The text also investigates why the American revolution was not more radical.
Understanding the American Revolution
Issues and Actors
Häftad, 1995
517 kr
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This volume brings together 16 essays on the American revolution which approach the revolution as an episode in British imperial history rather than as the first step in the creation of an American nation. The text also investigates why the American revolution was not more radical.
Creating the British Atlantic
Essays on Transplantation, Adaptation, and Continuity
E-bok, 2013
595 kr
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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 …
Settler Jamaica in the 1750s
A Social Portrait
E-bok, 2016
669 kr
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By the mid-eighteenth century, observers of the emerging overseas British Empire thought that Jamaica—in addition to being the largest British colony in the West Indies—was the most valuable of the American colonies. Based on a unique set of historical lists and maps, along with a variety of other …
Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica, and the Territories Thereon Depending
From the First Discovery of the Island by Christopher Columbus to the Year 1746
Av James Knight, Jack P. Greene
Inbunden, 2021
873 kr
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Between 1737 and 1746, James Knight a merchant, planter, and sometime Crown official and legislator in Jamaica wrote a massive two-volume history of the island. The first volume provided a narrative of the colony's development up to the mid-1740s, while the second offered a broad survey of most …
Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica, and the Territories thereon Depending
From the First Discovery of the Island by Christopher Columbus to the Year 1746
Av James Knight, Jack P. Greene
E-bok, 2021
830 kr
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Between 1737 and 1746, James Knight—a merchant, planter, and sometime Crown official and legislator in Jamaica—wrote a massive two-volume history of the island. The first volume provided a narrative of the colony’s development up to the mid-1740s, while the second offered a broad survey of most …
Exploring the Bounds of Liberty (3 vols)
Av Jack P Greene, Craig Yirush m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
687 kr
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Exploring the Bounds of Liberty presents a rich and extensive selection of the political literature produced in and about colonial British America during the century before the American Revolution. Most colonial political pamphlets and broadsides were printed in London, but even in the …
