Peripheries & Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1788 - Softcover

Jack P. Greene

 
9780393306613: Peripheries & Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1788

Synopsis

To Great Britain in the seventeenth century, and then to the fledgling United States, no problem was more urgent than how to divide authority between local powers and the governing central power. In this book the noted colonial historian Jack P. Greene traces the search for solutions.

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About the Author

Jack P. Greene (b. 1931) was an Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. His other books include The Quest for Power: The Lower Houses of Assembly in the Southern Royal Colonies, 1689-1776 (Norton).

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