Pursuits of Happiness The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture

Name: Pursuits of Happiness The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture
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ISBN: 9780807842270

ISBN-10: 0807842273

ISBN-13: 9780807842270

Edition: 1988

Authors: Jack P. Greene

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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 the Bahamas, the West Indies, the Middle Colonies, and the Lower South followed instead a pattern…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 10/30/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 301
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Tables & Figures


Preface


Prologue



Two Models of English Colonization, 1600-1660



Reconsiderations



A Declension Model: New England, 1660-1760



A Developmental Model: the Chesapeake, 1660-1760



Exemplar and Variation: Britain and Ireland, 1660-1760



Variations: the Middle Colonies and the Lower South, 1710-1760



Variations: the Atlantic and Caribbean Islands, 1660-1760



Convergence: Development of an American Society, 1720-1780


Epilogue


Notes


Index