Pursuits of happiness [[electronic resource] ] : the social development of early modern British colonies and the formation of American culture / / Jack P. Greene
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Greene Jack P
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Pursuits of happiness [[electronic resource] ] : the social development of early modern British colonies and the formation of American culture / / Jack P. Greene
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c1988 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306/.0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social change - United States |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Colonies America History |
| United States Civilization To 1783 | |
| United States Social conditions To 1865 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; Prologue; 1. Two Models of English Colonization, 1600-1660; 2. Reconsiderations; 3. A Declension Model: New England, 1660-1760; 4. A Developmental Model: The Chesapeake, 1660-1760; 5. Exemplar and Variation: Britain and Ireland, 1660-1760; 6. Variations: The Middle Colonies and The Lower South, 1710-1760; 7. Variations: The Atlantic and Caribbean Islands, 1660-1760; 8. Convergence: Development of an American Society, 1720-1780; Epilogue; Notes; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Pursuits of happiness |
| ISBN: | 0-8078-6414-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910455937503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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