Negotiated Authorities: Essays in Colonial Political and Constitutional History

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.

Author: Jack P. Greene
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 08/29/1994
Pages: 488
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.81lbs
Size: 9.05h x 6.08w x 1.28d
ISBN13: 9780813915173
ISBN10: 0813915171
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Colonial Period (1600-1775)

About the Author

Jack P. Greene is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University. He has published extensively, and his books include Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1783; Landon Carter: An Inquiry into the Personal Values and Social Imperatives of the Eighteenth-Century Virginia Gentry and Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of the Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture.