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Greene, Jack Phillip was born on August 12, 1931 in Lafayette, Indiana, United States. Son of Ralph Beamon and Nellie (Miller) Greene.
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The emergence of the lower houses of assembly is a major theme in American history: their quest for power became the most significant single feature of political and constitutional development in the colonial era. Miniature imitations of the House of Commons, these assemblies were not content to play a minor role in the affairs of their respective colonies and sought to increase their authority at the expense of both the colonial executives and the London government. They took the lead in defending American rights and liberties when they were challenged by Crown and Parliament and they served as a training ground for the remarkable political leaders of the nation's first quarter century. In this book, Jack P. Greene describes the rise of the lower houses in the four southern royal colonies--Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia--that reflects a process occurring throughout the colonies in the period between the Glorious Revolution and the American War for Independence. To determine what it was the Americans were defending in their debate with Britain between 1763 and 1776, Professor Greene defines the specific powers acquired by the lower houses, measures the extent of their authority at the close of the Seven Years' War, and examines the British challenge. He explores the theoretical foundations as well as the practical results of the assemblies' moves, and offers an important new interpretation of the relationship between their rise to power and the coming of the American Revolution.
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In this study, Greene describes the rise of the lower houses in the four southern royal colonies--Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia--in the period between the Glorious Revolution and the American War for Independence. It assesses the consequences of the success of the lower houses, especially the relationship between their rise to power and the coming of the American Revolution. Originally published in 1963. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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The Johns Hopkins University, Publication # 68. Reviews conceptions of the Revolution from 1967 perspective for teachers of history. "Earlier Conceptions," "The Imperial Conception," etc.
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“Characteristically incisive and refreshing. . . . It represents the fruits of years of reflection and research into the relationship between Great Britain and her American colonies, and how that relationship affected developments in the early Republic.” — [London] Times Higher Education Supplement To Great Britain in the seventeenth century, and then to the fledgling United States, no problem was more urgent than how to divide authority between local powers and the governing central power. In this book the noted colonial historian Jack P. Greene traces the search for solutions.
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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 fundamentally different from the Old World. Greene suggests that this concept of American societies as exceptional was a central component in their emerging identity. The success of the American Revolution helped subordinate Americans' long-standing sense of cultural inferiority to a more positive sense of collective self that sharpened and intensified the concept of American exceptionalism.
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These essays, drawn from the author's work since 1964, address three themes in American history in the century preceding the 1760s: authority in colonial British America; the political and constitutional development of these colonial entities; and shifting constitutional tensions within the empire.
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This volume brings together sixteen essays on the American Revolution by leading historian Jack Greene. Originally published between 1972 and the early nineties, these essays approach the Revolution as an episode in British imperial history rather than as the first step in the creation of an American nation. In Understanding the American Revolution, Greene explores such problems as Virginia's political behavior during the Revolutionary era; the roles of three cultural brokers, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Philip Mazzei; and why the Revolution had such a short half-life as a model for large-scale revolutions. He explores the colonial roots of the political structures that Revolutionary leaders created, and he asks why the American Revolution was not more radical.
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Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization that created deep and persistent tensions within the empire during the colonial era and that the failure to resolve it was the principal element in the decision of thirteen continental colonies to secede from the empire in 1776. Challenging those historians who have assumed that the British had the law on their side during the debates that led to the American Revolution, this volume argues that the empire had long exhibited a high degree of constitutional multiplicity, with each colony having its own discrete constitution and the empire as whole having an uncodified working customary constitution that determined the way authority was distributed within the empire. Contending that these constitutions cannot be conflated with the metropolitan British constitution, it argues that British refusal to accept the legitimacy of colonial understandings of the sanctity of the many colonial constitutions and the imperial constitution was the critical element leading to the American Revolution.
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“Characteristically incisive and refreshing. . . . It represents the fruits of years of reflection and research into the relationship between Great Britain and her American colonies, and how that relationship affected developments in the early Republic.” — [London] Times Higher Education Supplement To Great Britain in the seventeenth century, and then to the fledgling United States, no problem was more urgent than how to divide authority between local powers and the governing central power. In this book the noted colonial historian Jack P. Greene traces the search for solutions.
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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 the Bahamas, the West Indies, the Middle Colonies, and the Lower South followed instead a pattern first exhibited in America in the Chesapeake. That pattern involved a process in which these new societies slowly developed into more elaborate cultural entities, each of which had its own distinctive features. Greene also stresses the social and cultural convergence between New England and the other regions of colonial British America after 1710 and argues that by the eve of the American Revolution Britain's North American colonies were both more alike and more like the parent society than ever before. He contends as well that the salient features of an emerging American culture during these years are to be found not primarily in New England puritanism but in widely manifest configurations of sociocultural behavior exhibited throughout British North America, including New England, and he emphasized the centrality of slavery to that culture.
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“Characteristically incisive and refreshing. . . . It represents the fruits of years of reflection and research into the relationship between Great Britain and her American colonies, and how that relationship affected developments in the early Republic.” — [London] Times Higher Education Supplement To Great Britain in the seventeenth century, and then to the fledgling United States, no problem was more urgent than how to divide authority between local powers and the governing central power. In this book the noted colonial historian Jack P. Greene traces the search for solutions.
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A documentary history of American Life. General Editor: David Donald, The Johns Hopkins University in 8 parts. Part 2 is entitled: Colonies to Nations, 1763-1789.
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Greene, Jack Phillip was born on August 12, 1931 in Lafayette, Indiana, United States. Son of Ralph Beamon and Nellie (Miller) Greene.
Bachelor of Arts North Carolina, 1951. Master of Arts, Indiana University, 1952. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Indiana University, 1977.
Postgraduate, University Nebraska, 1955. Postgraduate, Bristol University, England, 1954. Doctor of Philosophy, Duke, 1956.
Instructor history Michigan State University, 1956-1959. Assistant professor Western Reserve University, 1959-1962, associate professor, 1962-1965. Visiting associate professor, also visiting editor William and Mary Quarterly, College William and Mary, 1961-1962.
Visiting associate professor Johns Hopkins University, 1964-1965. Associate professor University Michigan, 1965-1966. Professor history Johns Hopkins University, 1966-1975, Andrew W. Mellon professor humanities, 1976—2005, Andrew W. Mellon professor in humanities emeritus, since 2005, chairman department history, 1970-1972.
Distinguished professor University California, Irvine, 1990-1992. Member Institute Advanced Study, 1970-1971, 85-86. Visiting professor Columbia, 1973-1974, 77, Harmsworth professor Oxford (England) University, 1975-1976, Fulbright professor Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1979, Fulbright Distinguished Bicentennial professor École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1986-1987, Freeman professor University Richmond, 1996.
Sweet professor Michigan State University, 1997, guest professor, Frie University De Berlin, 2009.
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Author: The Quest for Power: The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776, 1963, The Diary of Colonel Landon Carter of Sabine Hall, 1752-1778, 2 vols, 1965, Settlements to Society, 1584-1763, 1966, Colonies to Nation, 1763-1789, 1967, The Reappraisal of the American Revolution in Recent Historical Literature, 1967, The Ambiguity of the American Revolution, 1968, The Reinterpretation of the American Revolution, 1968, The American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century 1689-1763, 1969, Great Britain and The American Colonies 1606-1763, 1970, The Nature of Colony Constitutions, 1970, The First Continental Congress: A Documentary History, 1974, All Men are Created Equal, 1976, Encylopedia of American Political History, 1984, Political Life in Eighteenth Century Virginia, 1986. Peripheries and Center, 1986, A Bicentennial Bookshelf, 1986, The Intellectual Heritage of the Constitution, 1986, The American Revolution: Its Character and Limits, 1987, Pursuits of Happiness, 1988, Selling the New World, 1989, Imperatives, Behaviors & Identities, 1992, Intellectual Construction of America, 1993, Negotiated Authorities, 1994, Understanding the American Revolution, 1995, Interpreting Early America, 1996, Exclusionary Empire, 2010, Constitutional Origins of the Americans Revolution, 2010. Joint editor: Preconditions of Revolution in Early Modern Europe, 1971, Neither Slave nor Free: The Freedmen of African Descent in the Slave Societies of the New World, 1972, Interdisciplinary Studies of the American Revolution, 1976, British Colonial America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era, 1983, Magna Charta for America, 1986, Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, 1991, Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal, 2008.
Served with Army of the United States, 1957. Fellow Royal History Society (correspondent), British Academy, American Academy Arts & Sciences. Member American Antiquarian Society, American History Association (Award for Scholarly Distinction, 2008), Southern History Association, American Philosophical Society, Massachusetts History Society, Society of America History, Colonial Society Massachusetts, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Sue Lucille Neuenswander, June 27, 1953 (divorced August 1990). Children: Jacqueline Megan, Granville. Married Amy Turner Bushnell, August 29, 1990.