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 institutions, identities, and values upon the New World societies being created
during the colonization process. He shows how transplanted Old World components--political,
legal, and social--were adapted to meet the demands of new, economically viable, expansive
cultural hearths. Greene argues that these transplantations and adaptations were of fundamental
importance in the formation and evolution of the new American republic and the society it
represented. 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.
Copyright:
2013
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ISBN-13:
9780813933894
Related ISBNs:
9780813933887
Publisher:
University of Virginia Press
Date of Addition:
05/07/13
Copyrighted By:
the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia