| Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1788 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Greene, Jack P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393306615 ISBN-13: 9780393306613 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $22.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - Political Science | American Government - General |
| Dewey: 321.03 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.51" W x 8.15" (0.81 lbs) 292 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Greene, Jack P.: - 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). |