ISBN:
0807864145
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9780807864142
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9780807818046
,
0807818046
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xv, 284 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Greene, Jack P Pursuits of happiness
DDC:
306.0973
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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British colonies
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Civilization
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Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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Great Britain Colonies
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Social conditions
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America
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United States Social conditions
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To 1865
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United States Civilization
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To 1783
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Great Britain Colonies
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Social conditions
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Grande-Bretagne Colonies
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Conditions sociales
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Amérique
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États-Unis Conditions sociales
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Jusqu'à 1865
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États-Unis Civilisation
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Jusqu'à 1783
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Grande-Bretagne Colonies
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Conditions sociales
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Great Britain
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United States
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United States Social conditions To 1865
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United States Civilization To 1783
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Great Britain Colonies
;
Social conditions
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Great Britain Colonies
;
Social conditions
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EE. UU Condiciones sociales
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Hasta 1865
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EE. UU Civilización
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Hasta 1783
;
Gran Bretaña Colonias
;
Condiciones sociales
;
America
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United States
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Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-265) and index. - Description based on print version record
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