Creating the British Atlantic : essays on transplantation, adaptation, and continuity / Jack P. Greene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greene, Jack P.

Series:

Early American histories.

Early American histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--Administration.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The scope of this work allows Greene to consider in depth numerous subjects, including the dynamics of colonization, the development and character of provincial identities, the relationship between new settler societies in America and the emerging British Empire, and the role of cultural power in social and political formation.

Contents:

Hemispheric history and atlantic history

Reformulating Englishness : cultural adaptation and provinciality in the construction of corporate identity in colonial British America

State formation, resistance, and the creation of revolutionary traditions in the early modern era

Colonial history and national history : reflections on a continuing problem

Transatlantic colonization and the redefinition of empire in the early modern era : the British-American experience

Traditions of consensual governance in the construction of state authority in the early modern European empires in America

Britain's overseas empire before 1780 : overwhelmingly successful and bureaucratically challenged

"Of liberty and of the colonies" : a case study of constitutional conflict in the mid-eighteenth-century British American empire

: the perils of success

An empire of freemen? : the British debate over the status of overseas representative assemblies, 1763-1783

Empire and identity from the Elizabethan era to the American Revolution

"By their laws shall ye know them" : law and identity in colonial British America

Liberty, slavery, and the transformation of British identity in the eighteenth-century West Indies

Alterity and the production of identity in the early modern British American empire and the early United States

State identities and national identity in the era of the American Revolution

Social and cultural capital in colonization and state building in the early modern era : colonial British America as a case study

Pluribus or unum? : white ethnicity in the formation of colonial American culture

The cultural dimensions of political transfers : an aspect of the European occupation of the Americas

Early modern southeastern North America and the broader Atlantic and American worlds.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813933894

0813933897

9781299265837

1299265839

OCLC:

833364804