Jack P Greene

Biographic Data

ID3628626
NAMEJack P Greene
GIVEN NAMESJack P
FAMILY NAMEGreene
SIGNATUREGREENE J P
AFFILIATIONSJohns Hopkins University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS218
TOTAL CITATIONS180
AUTHOR COUNT212
EDITOR COUNT6
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1931
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6

  • Perpetuating Settler Ascendancy

    Jack P GreeneARTICLEJournal of Early American History2025

    This essay may be considered as an epilogue to a larger project with the working title of “Settler Ascendancies: Voice and Authority in the Construction, Operation, Extension, and Separation of the British American Empire before 1776.” Building on my earlier books and essays emphasizing the agency of settlers in the construction and rationalizing the many societies and polities founded in the English or, after 1707, British American Empire before…

  • William J. Bulman. The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire

    Open AccessJack P GreeneARTICLEThe American Historical Review2022

    Using the experience of English representative ­­institutions in the early modern era as a case study, William J. Bulman’s ambitious and extraordinarily successful monograph, The Rise of Majority Rule in Early Modern Britain and Its Empire, seeks to problematize and recover the hitherto uninvestigated origins of majority rule as the primary mode of ­­decision-making in modern democracies. Unabashedly, the author, defining institutions as “systems…

  • Money, Trade, and Power

    Jack P Greene, Rosemary Brana-Shute et al.BOOKMoney, Trade, and Power2021

  • Colonial South Carolina

    Jack P GreeneCHAPTERMoney, Trade, and Power2021

  • The Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica, and the Territories thereon Depending

    James Knight, Trevor Burnard et al.BOOKNatural, Moral, and Political…2021

  • The American Colonies and the British Empire, 1607–1783

    Steven Sarson, Jack P GreeneBOOKAmerican Colonies and the British…2020

    One: Building an Empire 1 Motivations and Assumptions 8 The Early Plantings 12 Steps Toward Empire 16 The Restoration Empire 20 Reaction in America 26 A Rebellion in Virginia 30 Other Rebellions 34 Reshaping the Empire 37 Two: The Economic Empire 42 Shipping and Staples 47 The Northern Commerce 55 Industrial Regulations 59 The Money Supply 65 An Assessment 69 Three: Imperial Politics and Warfare 72 The Royal Governor 76 The Lower Houses of Assemb…

  • American Colonies and the British Empire, 1607-1783, Part I Vol 2

    Jack P Greene, Steven SarsonBOOKAmerican Colonies and the British…2020

  • Creating the British Atlantic

    Jack P GreeneDATASETThe SHAFR Guide Online2017Cited by: 1

    Set mostly within an expansive British imperial and transatlantic framework, this new selection of writings from the renowned historian Jack P. Greene draws on themes he has been developing throughout his distinguished career. In these essays Greene explores the efforts to impose Old World institutions, identities, and values upon the New World societies being created during the colonisation process. He shows how transplanted Old World components…

  • Citizens of the World

    Jack P GreeneDATASETThe SHAFR Guide Online2017

  • Pursuits of Happiness

    Jack P GreeneDATASETThe SHAFR Guide Online2017Cited by: 1

  • Britain's Overseas Empire before 1780

    Open AccessJack P GreeneCHAPTEREmpires and Bureaucracy in World…2016

    As a result of the American War for Independence, the British overseas empire in 1783 lost just under half of the thirty-three Atlantic colonies it had held when war began in 1775. In addition to the thirteen that became the United States, East and West Florida were retroceded to Spain and the French did not return Tobago, which they had captured during the war. Over the next half-century, the focus of empire shifted heavily to India, which until…

  • Empires and Bureaucracy in World History

    Open AccessTimothy Parsons, Patricia Ebrey et al.BOOKEmpires and Bureaucracy in World…2016

    How did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental problems in imperial studies by exploring the power and limits of bureaucracy. The book is pioneering in bringing together historians of antiquity and the Middle Ages with scholars of post-medieval E…

  • The Symbiotic Relationship between Liberty and Inequality in the Cultural Construction of Colonial British America and the United States

    Jack P GreeneARTICLEAmerican Political Thought2016References: 8

    This article explores the historical roots and temporal centrality of the interdependent relationship between liberty and inequality in the construction of colonial British America and the early United States. It surveys the symbiotic relationship among liberty, law, and civic capacity in late medieval and early modern England; the deliberate transfer of that relationship to New World polities; the social, economic, and demographic conditions tha…

  • Negotiated Empires

    Amy Turner Bushnell, Jack P Greene et al.BOOKNegotiated Empires2013Cited by: 20

    In this innovative volume, leading historians of the early modern Americas examine the subjects of early modern, continuing colonization, and the relations between established colonies and frontiers of settlement. Their original essays about centers and peripheries in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and British America invite comparison

  • Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution

    Jack P GreeneBOOKConstitutional Origins of the…2012

  • The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution

    Open AccessJack P GreeneBOOKConstitutional Origins of the…2010

    Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental colonies seceding from the empire in 1776. Challenging those historians who have assumed that the British had the law on their side during the debates that led to the American Revolution, this vo…

  • Atlantic history

    Philip Morgan, Jack P Greene et al.BOOKAtlantic history2009

  • Exclusionary Empire

    Open AccessElizabeth Mancke, James Kelly et al.BOOKExclusionary Empire2009

    Consisting of an introduction and ten chapters, Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900. Each chapter is written by a noted specialist and focuses on a particular area of the settler empire – Colonial North America, the West Indies, Ireland, the early United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa – and on one non-settler colony, India. The book exa…

  • Introduction

    Philip D Morgan, Jack P GreeneCHAPTERAtlantic history2008

    Atlantic history is an analytic construct and an explicit category of historical analysis that historians have devised to help them organize the study of some of the most important developments of the early modern era: the emergence in the fifteenth century and the subsequent growth of the Atlantic basin as a site for demographic, economic, social, cultural, and other forms of exchange among and within the four continents surrounding the Atlantic…

  • Hemispheric History And Atlantic History

    Jack P GreeneCHAPTERAtlantic history2008

    Historians of the early modern Americas have always been open to the broader approach. Already by the closing decades of the nineteenth century, they had recognized and sought to subvert the tendency of emerging national histories to reduce the colonial past to little more than the pre- history of the independent nations that formed in the Americas after the mid-1770s. By insisting that colonial histories be contextualized, both as parts of the e…

  • Companion to the American Revolution

    J R Pole, Jack P GreeneBOOKCompanion to the American…2008

  • Early Modern Southeastern North America and the Broader Atlantic and American Worlds

    Jack P GreeneARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2007

    HISTORIANS OF NEITHER THE INDIGENOUS INHABITANTS OF THE MAINLAND of southeastern North America nor the colonies Europeans established there after 1560 have ever been comfortable working with the framework of the history of the South. The very idea of the South as a distinctive entity characterized by slavery, large numbers of people of African descent, large plantations producing staple crops for export, low investment in education and other soci…

  • Reformulando a identidade inglesa na América britânica colonial

    Open AccessJack P GreeneARTICLEAlmanack Braziliense2006

    Using the experience of the British colonies in the Americas as an example, this essay explores the process by which portions of indigenous America were transformed into European Americas during the early modern era. It emphasizes the agency of settlers and the centrality of law and institutions in this process. Tracing the ways in which "Englishness" was reformulated in the Americas, whereby settlers created many distinct provinces that were, de…

  • The Papers of Henry Laurens. Volume XVI

    Jack P Greene, Henry Laurens et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2006

  • Comparing Early Modern American Worlds

    Open AccessJack P GreeneARTICLEHistory Compass2003Cited by: 1References: 3

    This article explores the tensions between the fashionable Atlantic history and multicultural history paradigms, in particular between the broad‐ranging tendencies of the former and the national state‐centered orientation of the latter. It proposes an American hemispheric perspective as a way of supplementing both these paradigms, while at the same time enriching understanding of the variations in the operation of the colonial impulse in the earl…