Negotiated Authorities: Essays in Colonial Political and Constitutional History

Jack P. Greene

University Press of Virginia, 1994 - History - 488 pages

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.

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Negotiated Authorities: Essays in Colonial Political and Constitutional History; ACLS Humanities E-Book
• Author: Jack P. Greene
• Publisher: University Press of Virginia, 1994
• ISBN: 0813915171, 9780813915173
• Length: 488 pages
• Subjects: History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); Political Science / Constitutions