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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779545303321
• Autore: Greene Jack P
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-8139-3389-7; 9780813933894
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (480 p.)
• Collana: Early American histories
• Disciplina: 973.3
• Soggetti: 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
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.