In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it--for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before. --From A Warning to the King: Thomas Jefferson, "A Summary View of the Rights of British-America" (August, 1774)
In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it--for the protection...
In this innovative volume, leading historians of the early modern Americas examine the subjects of early modern, continuing colonization, and the relations between established colonies and frontiers of settlement. Their original essays about centers and peripheries in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and British America invite comparison.
In this innovative volume, leading historians of the early modern Americas examine the subjects of early modern, continuing colonization, and the rela...
A Companion to the American Revolution is a single guide to the themes, events, and concepts of this major turning point in early American history. Containing coverage before, during, and after the war, as well as the effect of the revolution on a global scale, this major reference to the period is ideal for any student, scholar, or general reader seeking a complete reference to the field.
Contains 90 articles in all, including guides to further reading and a detailed chronological table.
Explains all aspects of the revolution before, during, and after the...
A Companion to the American Revolution is a single guide to the themes, events, and concepts of this major turning point in early American h...
These ten essays constitute a distinctive contribution to the enticing but treacherous domain of a comparative history. (The book) succeeds because it is written by qualified scholars who address a delimited, manageable subject (American Historical Review).
These ten essays constitute a distinctive contribution to the enticing but treacherous domain of a comparative history. (The book) succeeds because it...
Taken together, these essays constitute a better summing up--part critique, part appreciation--than anything else in print of work done in any field of American history. Nowhere else can we learn so easily and so well what to read about colonial America...A very useful volume of considerable distinction.--William Abbott, editor, The Papers of George Washington.
Taken together, these essays constitute a better summing up--part critique, part appreciation--than anything else in print of work done in any field o...
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...
In this book, Jack Greene reinterprets the meaning of American social development. Synthesizing literature of the previous two decades on the process ...
Jack Greene 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. Challenging historians who have argued that colonial American societies differed little from those of early modern Europe, he shows that virtually all contemporary observers emphasized the distinctiveness of the new worlds being created in America. Rarely considering the high costs paid by Amerindians and Africans in the construction of those worlds, they cited the British North American colonies as evidence that America was...
Jack Greene explores the changing definitions of America from the time of Europe's first contact with the New World through the establishment of the A...
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.
A psychological and intellectual portrait of Landon Carter, the wealthy 18th century diarist and master of Sabine Hall, this study attempts to delinea...
Imperatives, Behaviors, and Identities looks at aspects of the formation and development of English or, after 1707, British-American cultural spaces during the colonial and Revolutionary eras. It focuses on the special character of those new and rapidly changing spaces as dependent and derivative entities on the far periphery of the established core culture in England. Stressing the extent to which each of them was the product of a distinctive physical space and set of socio-economic and political circumstances affected emerging social priorities and operated to produce cultures that bth...
Imperatives, Behaviors, and Identities looks at aspects of the formation and development of English or, after 1707, British-American cultural space...
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.
These essays, drawn from the author's work since 1964, address three themes in American history in the century preceding the 1760s: authority in colon...
