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Exploring the Bounds of Liberty presents a rich and extensive selection of the political literature produced in and about colonial British America during the century before the American Revolution. Most colonial political pamphlets and broadsides were printed in London, but even in the mid-seventeenth century some writings were published in New England, which then had the only printing presses in British America. With the expansion of printing...

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 work brings together 16 essays in cultural history. Taken together, the essays aim to provide a reassessment of the complex process of cultural adjustment among the settler societies of colonial British and revolutionary America.

In our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right, and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it-for the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not b...

Taken together, these essays constitute a better summing up--part critique, part appreciation--than anything else in print of work done in any field of American history. Nowhere else can we learn so easily and so well what to read about colonial America. . . . A very useful volume of considerable distinction".--William Abbott, editor, "The Papers of George Washington".

This book analyzes how Britons celebrated and critiqued their empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790.

Set mostly within an expansive British imperial and transatlantic framework, this new selection of writings from the renowned historian Jack P. Greene draws on themes he has been developing throughout his distinguished career. In these essays Greene explores the efforts to impose Old World institutions, identities, and values upon the New World societies being created during the colonisation process. He shows how transplanted Old World compone...

A Companion to the American Revolution" is a single guide to the themes, events, and concepts of this major turning point in early American history. Containing coverage before, during, and after the war, as well as the effect of the revolution on a global scale, this major reference to the period is ideal for any student, scholar, or general reader seeking a complete reference to the field. Contains 90 articles in all, including guides to fur...

Describes the rise of the lower houses in the four southern US 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.

This book analyzes how Britons celebrated and critiqued their empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790.

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This text 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. It shows that virtually all contemporary observers emphasized the distinctiveness of the new worlds being created in America.

The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture. This book provides a compelling synthesis of a veritable mountain of scholarship and, in its detailed annotation the best guide available to recent work on the social and economic history of early modern Britain's Atlantic world.

A psychological and intellectual portrait of Landon Carter, the wealthy 18th century diarist and master of Sabine Hall, this study attempts to delineate his central character traits and personal values, while also placing him in the context of the social imperatives of the Virginia gentry of his day.

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