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

Author/creator Greene, Jack P.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCharlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Descriptionxiv, 465 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Great Britain--Colonies. --America. --History. --18th century.
Great Britain--Colonies. --America. --Administration.
United States--History. --Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States--History. --Revolution, 1775-1783.

SeriesEarly American histories
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2012044575
ISBN9780813933917 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN9780813933887 (cloth)

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