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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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"In these essays Greene explores the efforts to impose Old World institutions, identities, and values upon the New World societies being created during the colonization process. He shows how transplanted Old World components -- political, legal, and social -- were adapted to meet the demands of new, economically viable, expansive cultural hearths. Green argues that these transplantations and adaptations were of fundamental importance to the formation and evolution of the new American republic and the society it trpresented."--Back cover of paperback

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