The Intellectual Construction of America(English, Paperback, Greene Jack P.)

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The Intellectual Construction of America(English, Paperback, Greene Jack P.) is written by Greene Jack P. and published by The University of North Carolina Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0807846317 (ISBN 10) and 9780807846315 (ISBN 13).

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.