Table Of ContentCreating the British Atlantic
Jack P. Greene
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CREATING THE
BRITISH ATLANTIC
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Early American Histories
Douglas Bradburn, John C. Coombs,
and S. Max Edelson, Editors
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CREATING THE
BRITISH ATLANTIC
Essays on Transplantation,
Adaptation, and
Continuity
•
Jack P. Greene
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
Charlottesville and London
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University of Virginia Press
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Greene, Jack P.
Creating the British Atlantic : essays on transplantation, adaptation,
and continuity / Jack P. Greene.
pages cm. — (Early American histories)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Great Britain—Colonies—America—History—18th century. 2. Great Britain—
Colonies—America—Administration. 3. United States—History—Colonial period,
ca. 1600–1775. 4. United States—History—Revolution, 1775–1783. I. Title.
e195.g74 2013
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Creating the British Atlantic
Jack P. Greene
Published by University of Virginia Press
Greene, Jack P.
Creating the British Atlantic: Essays on Transplantation, Adaptation, and Continuity.
University of Virginia Press, 2013.
Project MUSE.muse.jhu.edu/book/23078. https://muse.jhu.edu/.
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Contents
Preface vii
part one Perspectives
one Hemispheric History and Atlantic History 3
two Reformulating Englishness: Cultural Adaptation and
Provinciality in the Construction of Corporate Identity
in Colonial British America 19
three State Formation, Resistance, and the Creation of
Revolutionary Traditions in the Early Modern Era 33
four Colonial History and National History: Refl ections on
a Continuing Problem 64
part two Governance
five Transatlantic Colonization and the Redefi nition of
Empire in the Early Modern Era: The British-American
Experience 83
six Traditions of Consensual Governance in the
Construction of State Authority in the Early Modern
European Empires in America 101
seven Britain’s Overseas Empire before 1780: Overwhelmingly
Successful and Bureaucratically Challenged 113
eight “Of Liberty and of the Colonies”: A Case Study of
Constitutional Confl ict in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century
British American Empire 140
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vi Contents
nine 1759: The Perils of Success 208
ten An Empire of Freemen? The British Debate over the
Status of Overseas Representative Assemblies, 1763–1783 226
part three Identities
eleven Empire and Identity from the Elizabethan Era to the
American Revolution 253
twelve “By Their Laws Shall Ye Know Them”: Law and
Identity in Colonial British America 278
thirteen Liberty, Slavery, and the Transformation of British
Identity in the Eighteenth-Century West Indies 293
fourteen Alterity and the Production of Identity in the Early
Modern British American Empire and the Early
United States 323
fifteen State Identities and National Identity in the Era of
the American Revolution 340
part four Social Construction
sixteen Social and Cultural Capital in Colonization and State
Building in the Early Modern Era: Colonial British
America as a Case Study 363
seventeen Pluribus or Unum? White Ethnicity in the Formation
of Colonial American Culture 381
eighteen The Cultural Dimensions of Political Transfers: An
Aspect of the European Occupation of the Americas 401
nineteen Early Modern Southeastern North America and the
Broader Atlantic and American Worlds 426
Index 439
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Creating the British Atlantic
Jack P. Greene
Published by University of Virginia Press
Greene, Jack P.
Creating the British Atlantic: Essays on Transplantation, Adaptation, and Continuity.
University of Virginia Press, 2013.
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Preface
This volume brings together a selection of nineteen of the articles,
book chapters, and essays I have written during the fi fteen years since the
University of Virginia Press published four volumes of my essays under various
titles between 1992 and 1996.¹ Like those, this volume covers several inter-
related subjects in the broad areas of early modern En glish/British America,
the British Empire, and the early United States. Unlike those, which concen-
trated, respectively, on cultural history, political and constitutional history, the
American Revolution, and historiography, this volume is far more multifac-
eted in focus, containing essays on four broad historical topics: perspectives,
governance, identities, and social construction. The title, Creating the British
Atlantic: Essays on Transplantation, Adaptation, and Continuity, calls attention
to three of the principal themes that I have tried to develop in my earlier writ-
ings and that provide some coherence for this volume. Transplantation refers to
the often self-conscious eff orts to impose Old World institutions, forms, val-
ues, and identities upon the New World societies that settlers, traders, colonial
enterprisers, and other participants in the colonizing process were creating in
America. Adaptation connotes the reconfi guration and reformulation of those
transplanted political, constitutional, legal, and social components of Old
World culture to meet the specifi c conditions that participants encountered
and created in constructing and articulating new, economically viable, and
expansive culture hearths and eff ective polities in a wide variety of physical
and social settings. Continuity calls attention, not only to the many extensions
of Old World culture to America through the process of transplantation and
1. Jack P. Greene, Imperatives, Behaviors, and Identities: Essays in Early American Cultural
History (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992); Greene, Negotiated Authorities:
Essays in Colonial Political and Constitutional History (Charlottesville: University Press of Vir-
ginia, 1994); Greene, Understanding the American Revolution: Issues and Actors (Charlottes-
ville: University Press of Virginia, 1995); Greene, Interpreting Early America: Historiographical
Essays (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996).
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