Bøger af Jack P. Greene

This text 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. It shows that virtually all contemporary observers emphasized the distinctiveness of the new worlds being created in America.

Describes the rise of the lower houses in the four southern US 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.

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.

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, Jack Greene challenges the central assumptions that have traditionally been used to analyse colonial British American history.

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 Independence. To determine what it was the Americans were defending in their debate with Britain between 1763 and 1776, Professor Greene defines the specific powers acquired by the lower houses, measures the extent of their authority at the close of the Seven Years' War, and examines the British challenge. He explores the theoretical foundations as well as the practical results of the assemblies' moves, and offers an important new interpretation of the relationship between their rise to power and the coming of the American Revolution.

By the mid-eighteenth century, observers of the emerging overseas British Empire thought that Jamaica was the most valuable of the American colonies. Based on a unique set of historical lists and maps, along with a variety of other contemporary materials, Jack Greene's study provides unparalleled detail about the character of Jamaica's settler society during the decade of the 1750s.

A psychological and intellectual portrait of Landon Carter, the wealthy 18th century diarist and master of Sabine Hall, this study attempts to delineate his central character traits and personal values, while also placing him in the context of the social imperatives of the Virginia gentry of his day.

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.

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.

"Characteristically incisive and refreshing. . . . It represents the fruits of years of reflection and research into the relationship between Great Britain and her American colonies, and how that relationship affected developments in the early Republic." - [London] Times Higher Education Supplement