Jack Greene explores the changing definitions of America from the time of Europe's first contact with the New World through the establishment of the American republic. Challenging historians who have argued that colonial American societies differed little from those of early modern Europe, he shows that virtually all contemporary observers emphasized the distinctiveness of the new worlds being created in America. This concept of American societies' exceptionalism, suggests Greene, was a central component in their emerging identity.

Book Information
ISBN 9780807846315
Author Jack P. Greene
Format Paperback
Page Count 228
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press