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

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 coloni...

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Main Author: Greene, Jack P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1988.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 284 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-265) and index.
ISBN:0807864145
9780807864142
9780807818046
0807818046