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

Greene, Professor Jack P

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1597401722 ISBN 13: 9781597401722

Publisher: ACLS History E-Book Project, 2001

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.

About this title

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: ACLS History E-Book Project
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1597401722
• ISBN 13: 9781597401722
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 292