Pursuits of happiness : the social development of early modern British colonies and the formation of American culture /

Greene, Jack P.

Pursuits of happiness : the social development of early modern British colonies and the formation of American culture / Jack P. Greene. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1988. - 1 online resource (xv, 284 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-265) and index.

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.

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.


English.

0807864145 (electronic bk.) 9780807864142 (electronic bk.) 9780807818046 (alk. paper) 0807818046 (alk. paper) (alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)

9780807818046

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To 1865


SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
British colonies.
Civilization.
Social conditions


Great Britain--Colonies--Social conditions.--America
United States--Social conditions--To 1865.
United States--Civilization--To 1783.
Great Britain--Colonies--Social conditions.
Grande-Bretagne--Colonies--Conditions sociales.--Amérique
États-Unis--Conditions sociales--Jusqu'à 1865.
États-Unis--Civilisation--Jusqu'à 1783.
Grande-Bretagne--Colonies--Conditions sociales.
America.
United States.

United States Colonisation by Great Britain, 1607-1775


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