Pursuits of happiness : the social development of early modern British colonies and the formation of American culture / Jack P. Greene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greene, Jack P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--United States.

Social change.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--History.

Great Britain.

United States--Civilization--To 1783.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--To 1865.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 284 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 change in all the other early modern British colonies. The settler societies established in Ireland, the Atlantic island colonies of Bermuda and

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Prologue; 1. Two Models of English Colonization, 1600-1660; 2. Reconsiderations; 3. A Declension Model: New England, 1660-1760; 4. A Developmental Model: The Chesapeake, 1660-1760; 5. Exemplar and Variation: Britain and Ireland, 1660-1760; 6. Variations: The Middle Colonies and The Lower South, 1710-1760; 7. Variations: The Atlantic and Caribbean Islands, 1660-1760; 8. Convergence: Development of an American Society, 1720-1780; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798890865168

9780807864142

0807864145

OCLC:

54357547