Creating the British Atlantic: Essays on Transplantation, Adaptation, and Continuity

by Jack P. Greene

Book Overview

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 colonization process. He shows how transplanted Old World components--political,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813933889
• ISBN13: 9780813933887
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.5"