Great Britain and the American Colonies, 1606-1763 (Documentary History of the U.S.)

Jack P. Greene

Harper Publishing

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.

Colonies to Nation: 1763-1789 (A Documentary History of American Life, Volume 2) by Jack Greene (1967-05-03)

History

Americas

McGraw=Hill

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.

The Quest For Power: The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776

W.W.Norton&Company

The growing conviction in London that measures had to be undertaken at the end of the French and Indian war to shore up British authority in the colonies was revealed by the stream of proposals for imperial reform that poured from the pens of Crown officials and other interested observers during the early 1760s. 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 before. ―From A Warning to the King: Thomas Jefferson, “A Summary View of the Rights of British-America” (August, 1774)

Colonies to Nation, 1763-1789: A Documentary History of the American Revolution

The Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 to 1800

University of North Carolina Press

Intended as a plausible psychological and intellectual portrait of Landon Carter, thi study attempts to delineate his central character traits and personal values. It calls attention to what motivated him, to the major problems he encountered, how he sought to solve them, and how well he succeeded. His world is viewed in much the way he must have seen it. The book is also an inquiry into the personal values and social imperatives of the eighteenth-century Virginia gentry, for Carter exemplifies the ideas and assumptions that gave structure and coherence to the private and public worlds of that extraordinary group.

Landon Carter an Inquiry into the Personal Values and Social Imperatives of the Eighteenth-Century Virginia Gentry

University of Virginia Press

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