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Peripheries and center: constitutional development in the extended polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1788
ISBN: 9780393306613
Platform/Publisher: ACLS / W. W. Norton
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Ten pages at a time; Download: Ten pages at a time
Subjects: American: Colonial to 1789;

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.