Intellectual Construction of America Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 To 1800

Name: Intellectual Construction of America Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 To 1800
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ISBN: 9780807846315

ISBN-10: 0807846317

ISBN-13: 9780807846315

Edition: 1997

Authors: Jack P. Greene

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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 for free people a place of exceptional opportunities for individual betterment and was therefore…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/26/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Preface


Prologue



Expectations: The European Fabrication of America in the Sixteenth Century



Encounters: Projection and Design in the Construction of English America, 1580-1690



Experiences: The Behavioral Articulation of British America, 1690-1760



Evaluations: The Conceptual Identification of British America, 1715-1775



Examinations: The European Response to the American Revolution, 1776-1800



Explanations: Revolution and Redefinition, 1774-1800


Epilogue


Index


Illustrations


Renaissance Discoveries


Vespucci Awakens a Sleeping America


America at the End of the Sixteenth Century


Invasion of America


Mutiny in Jamaica


Utopia


A Century of Spanish Activities in America


East Coast of North America in the Late Sixteenth Century


America


Connecticut Colony Seal


New York Colony Coat of Arms


Design of Philadelphia


View of Savannah


Sachem and Soldier


Colonel Jacque


Tobacco Plantation


Hercules and the Waggoner


Public Buildings of Williamsburg


View of Philadelphia


View of Boston


Town and Country


Community Scenes


John Bartram's House and Garden


New England View


New York City Hall


Tryon's Palace


Faneuil Hall


Charleston Exchange


Redwood Library


Nassau Hall


America as Example


Pennsylvania State Seal


America as a Land of Freedom


An American Settlement


America and Fame


Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences


Maryland State Seal


An American New Cleared Farm


View from Bushongo Tavern


Seat of Moses Gill


View of Mulberry Plantation


The Beckoning West


A Settled Rural Landscape


Seat of Colonel George Boyd


Philadelphia Public Buildings


Invitation from America